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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

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Cantalloc Aqueducts, Peru (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by PugJesus@lemmy.world to c/historyruins@lemmy.world

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[–] TIN@feddit.uk 17 points 3 weeks ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantalloc_Aqueducts

[–] thonofpy@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How do they work?

[–] TRBoom@lemm.ee 8 points 3 weeks ago

More details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puquios

Apparently they dig a shaft down to the water table at a higher elevation and then tunnel from there to where they want the water to go.