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The ruins of San Gervasio — located on the island of Cozumel in Mexico — were once an important site of pilgrimage to Maya people who lived from c. 1000-1650 CE. A sanctuary of the Maya goddess Ix Chel used to be located at this location...

The ruins of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus in Caria (now Bodrum in Turkey), constructed for King Maussollos during the mid-4th century BCE. Its construction was so beautiful and unique that it became one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient...

The ruins of San Gervasio — located on the island of Cozumel in Mexico — were once an important site of pilgrimage to Maya people who lived from c. 1000-1650 CE. A sanctuary of the Maya goddess Ix Chel used to be located at this location...

The ruins of Teishebaini (aka Tesebaini, near modern Yerevan in Armenia) which was an important fortress city of the Urartu civilization. Founded in the reign of king Rusa II (r. c. 685-645 BCE) and abandoned c. 590 BCE.

The ruins of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, constructed for King Mausolus during the mid-4th century BC at Halicarnassus in Caria.

A July 1941 photograph showing the ruins of Minsk following the battle of Białystok-Minsk in Jun-Jul 1941 during Operation Barbarossa of the Second World War (1939-45). In the battle, the USSR's Red Army was defeated by Axis forces. (German...

The ruins of Karum (known today at Kültepe in central Turkey), the capital trading centre of the Assyrian merchants in Anatolia in the first quarter of the 2nd millennium BCE. This period was called the “Assyrian Trading Colonies Period“.

Ruins of the sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia at Palestrina.

The ruins of the Great Church at Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset. The church was constructed during the 12th and early 13th centuries CE after a fire ruined the Old Church in 1184 CE.

Arates Monastery in Armenia is built on top of a hill and overlooks the Arates tributary of the Yeghegis River. The monastery's name came from the combination of “ari” ("come" in Armenian) and “tes” ("see" in Armenian). The group of half-ruined...