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A photograph of the ruins of the 7th Century CE Whitby Abbey in North Yorkshire, England. The abbey was founded by King Oswy of Northumbria (642-670 CE) in 657 CE, and was placed under the guidance of its first abbess, St. Hilda of Whitby...

Ruins of an indigo factory at Mongalganj, near Bangaon in West Bengal, India. Indigo was an important cash crop for the East India Company and during the British Raj.

Ruins of The Church of Santa Maria do Carmo. The church was established in 1389 CE by D. Nuno Álvares Pereira (1360-1431 CE) and destroyed in the 1755 CE Lisbon earthquake.

Ruins of the ancient city of Sardis, the capital of the kingdom of Lydia, located in western Anatolia, present-day western Turkey.

The ruins of Aytap (Iotape) in Cilicia, Anatolia. The city was founded by Antiochus IV of Commagene in 52 CE.

The ruins of Warsama’s palace, King of Kanesh, at Kültepe in central Turkey, the capital of the ancient Kingdom of Kanesh and centre of a complex network of Assyrian trade colonies in the 2nd millennium BCE. The palace is one of the oldest...

The ruins of Archaic Thera on Santorini, Greece.

Ruins inside the Byzantine Fortress of Archaeopolis (Nokalakevi) and the 6th-century CE Forty Martyrs’ Church, originally built as an aisled basilica and later reconstructed several times and turned into a dome church. Archaeopolis is a...

The ruins of Arbroath Abbey in Scotland. The abbey was founded in 1178 CE by William I of Scotland (r. 1165 to 1214 CE).

A photo of the ruins of Thera (Akrotiri) on Santorini, Greece.