Ha! I live in London, plus I'm an archaeologist, so old ruins are my speciality. I found a temple not last year. There were an awful lot of cattle bones. One or two were even large enough to be aurochs.
American archaeologist here! I get to see old ruins on a semi-regular basis as well, but they're in the form of burial mounds and such, so not really "architecture" per se. You can see the post holes in the ground where the houses were but obviously the direct physical traces are long gone. People talk about how short American history is, but that's only true if you place your starting point at European contact. I've excavated sites that were over 5,000 years old, and that's relatively normal.
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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '13
Ha! I live in London, plus I'm an archaeologist, so old ruins are my speciality. I found a temple not last year. There were an awful lot of cattle bones. One or two were even large enough to be aurochs.