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a showing wall - Gintaras Karosas

the non-regular geometry of the Tepe Sialk (c.3000 BCE) - not Sumerian etc. but possibly from a Zayandeh River Culture

arboreal micro-tells - Roger Eberhard & James Nizam

Sumur Gumuling, Yogyakarta

rock-cut, stripped, smoke-stained & alcove-riddled interiors of the monastery ruins of Vardzia (ვარძია), Georgia

Stupa of Takht-e Rostam, Buddhism in Afghanistan

Illustrated Ruins - 1487 CE, Konrad von Grünenberg

Cliff Settlements of Canyon de Chelly

ruins of the first Islamic university, Harran. c.8th cent. CE

~300 years older than the first Western university

Moray - an Ancient Incan Agricultural Laboratory

Duga-3 the radioactive remains of the Cold War OTH Radar responsible for the Woodpecker Signal, now rusting away within the Chernobyl exclusive zone.

Tumuli of Cerveteri

The Norias of Hama - ancient waterwheels that feed into aquaducts

a perfect & moody space

TVA Nuclear Center - Jamie Blakeslee

Ships Dismantled and Recycled