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Ruins of the Free State Hotel after the 1856 sacking of the Free State City of Lawrence, Kansas by pro-slavery advocates. State Historical Society of Missouri.

The so-called "tongue tower" at the top of the ruins of the ziggurat and temple of Nabu, at the ancient city of Borsippa, built in the 6th century BCE. Biris Namrud, Babil Governorate, Iraq.

Ruins of the Nalanda University complex, an ancient Buddhist center of learning, located in modern-day Bihar, India. The university flourished under the reign of Harshavardhana (606-647 CE) and had c. 10,000 students.

A photo of the ruins of Persepolis.

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.

These are the ruins of the old academia at Noravank Monastery in Armenia. In medieval times, Noravank was a center of Armenian art, culture, and learning.

The image shows part of the excavated city of Ebla in Syria. Most of the ruins have been given a top layer of new bricks. Some stones used to grind flour are also seen in the picture.

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.