this post was submitted on 12 May 2025
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History Ruins

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What is a ruin? We’re running off of “You know it when you see it” at the moment. Ruins should be non-functioning structures of some age, or their function reduced to tourism and the like.

Generally speaking, specific items from a ruin should go to !historyartifacts@lemmy.world

Illustrations of ruins (or their reconstructions) should go to !historyillustrations@lemmy.world

Photos of ruins back when they were functioning should go to !HistoryPorn@lemmy.world

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[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 9 points 4 weeks ago

A dakhma (Persian: دخمه), otherwise referred to as Tower of Silence (Persian: برجِ خاموشان), is a circular, raised structure built by Zoroastrians for excarnation (that is, the exposure of human corpses to the elements with the purpose to enable their decomposition), in order to avoid contamination of the soil and other natural elements by the decomposing dead bodies.[1][2][3] Carrion birds, usually vultures and other scavengers, consume the flesh.[1][2] Skeletal remains are gathered into a central pit where further weathering and continued breakdown occurs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Silence

This would be an OK way to go out. Too bad they don't do it any more.

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Reduced from its former glory, now known as the Tower of Choad