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Canyon De Chelly
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Looks more like geology ruins than history ruins.
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It's Tse yaa Kin ("house under the rock"), known as Mummy Cave, in Canyon del Muerto. The most recent ruins are ~700 years old; the oldest archeological traces could be ~1700 years old.
There are some pretty big buildings in there! Apparently the site (the Mummy Cave ruins in the Canyon de Chelly park) consists of about 70 rooms between the different buildings. Not sure how many buildings there are, I can see three distinct ones in this pic but since only one of them is still mostly standing I can imagine there are others than are harder to see
Oh, that is very cool. I would love to be able to see that in person someday.
Yeah this is just those natural forming multi story houses.
For anyone who can’t see, there’s an entire city under the cliff in the shade.
Looks like a nose.
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 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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