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proof that everything humans build eventually loses an argument with time
means The broken, decayed remains of buildings or structures that have been damaged by age, war, or neglect.
from From Latin ruina, 'a collapse, a falling down,' which comes from the verb ruere, 'to rush, fall, tumble down' — the same restless root that gives us 'rush.' English took it in through Old French ruine in the late Middle Ages. So at its heart, a ruin isn't just something old; it's something caught mid-fall, frozen in the act of coming down.
- tourist magnet
- Rome's Colosseum draws millions to admire decay
- recycled stone
- medieval builders mined ruins for free building material
- romantic era
- 18th-century nobles built fake ruins for ambiance
- buried deep
- Troy hid under nine layered cities
- reclaimed
- jungle swallowed Angkor Wat for centuries
pompeii — roman city buried by mount vesuvius in 79 ad, preserving 20,000 residents in volcanic ash
angkor wat — 12th-century khmer temple complex in cambodia, largest religious monument in the world
machu picchu — incan citadel built around 1450 in peru's cusco region, 7,970 feet above sea level
petra — nabatean capital carved into rose-red cliffs in jordan, built around 100 bce