Homs A Revolutionary Syrian City in Ruins Global Voices

After the earthquake, the tsunami, and subsequent fires, Lisbon lay in ruins.

German troops then occupied the ruined city on May 27.

Surrounded by Rubble, This Flower Seller's Dreams Are on Hold in Syria Global Voices

By 2003, most of the city was rebuilt, with only a few remaining visible ruins in the city center.

The city is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.

In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

The confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

The city of confusion is broken down every house is shut up, that no man may come in.

It was the first big fortification of the city, initiated in 1558 on the ruins of an ancient fortress.

The official opening had to be cancelled as a catastrophic fire in May 1842 left a third of the town in ruins.

The city, which is now in ruins, was also famous for its rich history, a witness of which was the Citadel of Aleppo, which stood strong in the heart of the City.

Deliver me from a city built on the site of a more ancient city, whose materials are ruins, whose gardens cemeteries.

Collapsing infrastructure.

And perhaps 80 of them died in the ruins of the city.

The ruins of Angkor are located amid forests and farmland to the north of the Great Lake (Tonlé Sap) and south of the Kulen Hills, near modern day Siem Reap city (13 24 N, 103 51 E), in Siem Reap Province.

Gondor had long been threatened by the nearby realm of Mordor, and in 3018 the Dark Lord Sauron began the War of the Ring, attacking the ruined city of Osgiliath that guarded the passage to Minas Tirith.

It is the site of the ancient city Nekheb , the companion city to Nekhen.

Three hotels and a small museum have been built within walking distance of the ancient city.

History The ruins of the ancient capital of the province were found near Toyotsu, Fukuoka.

This camp is now in ruins.

This one is falling apart.

The burden of Damascus Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it will be a ruinous heap.

The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

Two churches were reconstructed and the remaining ruins of the old town were torn down in the 1960s.

The Temple of the Sun in the Gobi Desert, the Inca ruins in Mexico, the lost Himalaya city.

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The ruined city of the old Incas.

Once dubbed the 'Paris of the Middle East', Beirut received its warzone reputation as a result of the 1975 1990 Lebanese Civil War that effectively turned the city to rubble.

In 1119 an Augustinian monastery was built here, the ruins of which known, after the founder, as the Erkenbertruine still stand today in the town centre.

A villa belonging to the Seneca would be identified within the ruins found on the south ridge of Lake Albano, bordering the town of Ariccia.

There alone in the undergrowth but still visible from the city, one can still see the ruins of his house dating from the 15th century .

And in the middle of the city, there lies the ruins of Meimoon Ghal'eh, one of several Sassanid edifices in the area.

Ruins in Colon (Germany) in 1945.

The explosion reduced the facilities to ruins.

After the hurricane, their house was a wreck.

The ruins were demolished around 1950.

Ruins of Angkor

Theruins...

It's a ruin.

Beneath the tender azure of this beautiful day there lay a sewer, the ruins of a town drowned and melted in mud.

We explore ruins of Palestinian villages, and we discuss how they became ruins.

Imagine the scene Bucharest, le petit Paris, a city of three million people with wide boulevards and grand bourgeois villas, stands now a city half in ruins.

A series of explosions reduced the laboratory to ruins.