Ruins

A stone city made by nature, by erosion; “ruined architecture” fooling human eyes into believing this mirage, this illusion, and attempting always to cut a path to it. Ancient ruins made of natural materials; ancient ruins consumed by jungle; ancient civilisations simply disappear. And yet if the right god-selected agent looks he will see shards of pottery, moat-like ditches, evidence of bridges and causeways. Connecting to what? Leading to where? Other ancient (and lost) cities, probably.

Picture credit: Among the Ruins, 1904, Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema (source: WikiArt)

See The Lost City of Z by David Grann.

Written March 2022.