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Partially excavated pyramid

I was once visiting some friends in Guatemala, and we all went out to some park in the middle of nowhere. It wasn’t a tourist place or anything, it was just a bunch of hills. I walked up one of the hills and looked down to see that the other half of it had been excavated to reveal the steps of a temple. In fact, all the hills there were covering buildings because that place used to be an ancient Mayan (?) town. There just wasn’t enough funding/interest to excavate it all, so it was just a park of hills.

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I want to visit Guatemala so badly, some of the master’s students in my trip took a flight afterwards to Honduras and then a bus over into Guatemala in order to see Tikal and I was so jealous

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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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