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Paul Cooper‏Verified account @PaulMMCooper 9 Jan 2018

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A thread on how the ruins of a Roman city in Libya ended up in an English country park, & what that tells us about imperial attitudes to the ruins of the pasthttps://twitter.com/PaulMMCooper/status/950033589374156800 …

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One of the strangest stories of a ruined site I’ve ever come across is the one behind the Roman Temple of Augustus in Windsor, England. That’s because if you came here at the beginning of the 1800's, it wouldn't be there at all. pic.twitter.com/e4MXCsfpTd

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Paul Cooper‏Verified account @PaulMMCooper 4 Mar 2018

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A thread on the abandoned Pennsylvanian mining town of Centralia, & the underground fire that's still burning beneath it to this day.https://twitter.com/PaulMMCooper/status/969586286905516033?s=19 …

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One of the world's weirdest ruined & abandoned places is the Pennsylvanian town of Centralia. Its residents were forced to leave by an underground fire that's been burning beneath the town for over 50 years. pic.twitter.com/mhYvy0oKei

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Paul Cooper‏Verified account @PaulMMCooper 1 Apr 2018

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A thread on the "forbidden zone" of Varosha, where one of the world's most popular tourist destinations became a ghost town overnighthttps://twitter.com/PaulMMCooper/status/979356442426822657?s=19 …

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Ghost towns are rarely abandoned all at once. Whether caused by catastrophe or economic change, the decline is usually slow. But the strange story of Varosha, Cyprus, shows how one of the world's most popular tourist destinations became an empty, crumbling ruin overnight. pic.twitter.com/YPM0lNXbds

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Paul Cooper‏Verified account @PaulMMCooper 3 Apr 2018

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A thread on the ruined pigeon towers of Iran, how they mirror sacred architecture & point to a lost tradition of sustainable living.https://twitter.com/PaulMMCooper/status/980795272279273472?s=19 …

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Looking at the architecture of Iran's ruined pigeon towers today. pic.twitter.com/gVXOeHyU1H

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Paul Cooper‏Verified account @PaulMMCooper 27 Apr 2018

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A thread on France's Zone Rouge, an area so poisoned by the First World War that it's a wild, abandoned place to this day.https://twitter.com/PaulMMCooper/status/989100350044082176?s=19 …

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One of the most chilling abandoned places in the world is France's Red Zone, or "Zone Rouge". Over 100 years ago, the First World War so devastated the landscape here that people are still forbidden to enter, & the zone has become a ghostly & overgrown place. pic.twitter.com/fPDL4URKmV

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Paul Cooper‏Verified account @PaulMMCooper 13 May 2018

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A thread on the drowned ancient port of Thonis-Heracleion, and its modern day rediscovery.https://twitter.com/PaulMMCooper/status/994923533250826245?s=19 …

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One of the world's most remarkable ruined places is the sunken city of Thonis-Heracleion. Once a thriving hub of the ancient world, the city was devastated by a series of environmental disasters, & now lies 6.5km off the coast in the blue waters of the Egyptian sea. pic.twitter.com/okeCmXtCiv

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Paul Cooper‏Verified account @PaulMMCooper 8 Jun 2018

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A thread on the Altai region of Central Asia, where people make a living among the debris of fallen rockets.https://twitter.com/PaulMMCooper/status/998581449895874560 …

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The Altai region of Central Asia seems at first to be a remote & peaceful place. But it also sits on the world's busiest flight path for space missions. Here used-up rockets regularly crash to earth, & local people are left to salvage what they can of the wreckage. pic.twitter.com/0xcX6itWZu

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Paul Cooper‏Verified account @PaulMMCooper 19 Jun 2018

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A thread on the ruin of the Gorgan Wall, the second longest border wall in history, and the ancient empire that built it.https://twitter.com/PaulMMCooper/status/1007283129994940422 …

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One of the world’s most incredible ruins is also one of its most mysterious: The ancient Gorgan Wall. For nearly 1,000 years, this was the longest & mightiest border wall ever built. It was twice as long as Hadrian's Wall, & its construction is an unsolved mystery to this day. pic.twitter.com/By4YX186g1

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Paul Cooper‏Verified account @PaulMMCooper 22 Jul 2018

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A thread on the Temple to Pluto in Hierapolis, Turkey, and the deadly properties of its "Gate to Hell"https://twitter.com/PaulMMCooper/status/1020262097815588864 …

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One of the world’s most chilling ruins is the Ploutonion at Hierapolis, “the Gates to Hell”. Here crowds watched priests lead animal sacrifices down into a cave, where they died mysteriously as if dragged down to the underworld. And no one knew how they did it until recently. pic.twitter.com/88xq8ORtpP

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Paul Cooper‏Verified account @PaulMMCooper 26 Sep 2018

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A thread on the ghost town of Kolmanskop inside Namibia's forbidden zone, its haunting sand-covered rooms and the dark history that led to its abandonment.https://twitter.com/PaulMMCooper/status/1039546188377346048 …

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One of the world's most haunting ruined places is the ghost town of Kolmanskop, in the desert of Southern Namibia. Once a thriving mining town, it now sits in an enormous "restricted zone" where people are still forbidden to enter, and is slowly being reclaimed by the sands. pic.twitter.com/MoXQLIsSnp

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Paul Cooper‏Verified account @PaulMMCooper 10 Oct 2018

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A thread on the colossal wrecks of the Nemi ships: built by one dictator and unearthed by another, before being lost to history completely.https://twitter.com/PaulMMCooper/status/1049264432583462913 …

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Some of the most remarkable lost artefacts from the ancient world were the titanic wrecks of the Nemi ships. In their 1st century heyday they held gardens, palaces & baths in a floating wonderland. But barely a decade after their recovery, they were lost forever. pic.twitter.com/MQjcSz20Zl

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1. Mike Nayler‏ @mnaylerDELL 11 Oct 2018
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  Fascinating! Thanks Paul
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