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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.

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The Roman-era theatre at Hieropolis, modern-day Turkiye (infosec.pub)
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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 3 points 7 hours ago

No clay tablets allowed!

Guy in the back furiously writing the monologues and drawing the characters.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

looks pretty usable for being a ruin, i know Verona Italy still uses theirs, maybe others