on the surface of solaris

It was like looking at the ruins of an ancient town, a Moroccan city tens of centuries old, convulsed by an earthquake or some other disaster. I made out a tangled web of winding sidestreets choked with debris, and alleyways which fell abruptly towards the oily foam that floated close to the shore. In the middle distance, great battlements stood intact, sustained by ossified buttresses. There were dark openings in the swollen, sunken walls — traces of windows or loop-holes. The whole of this floating town canted to one side or another like a foundering ship, pitched and turned slowly, and the sun cast continually moving shadows, which crept among the ruined alleys. Now and again a polished surface caught and reflected the light. 

process - the faces of cities and architecture: the climate of the middle east and india

kandariya mahadeo temple, kajuraho. c.1000

lakshmana temple 950-1050

raja rani temple, bhubaneswar. c.1000

brahmeswara temple, bhubaneswar. c.1075

lingaraja temple, bhubaneswar. c.1000

towers of silence, located on the rocky hills, yazd, iran

citadel, jodhpur, 17th - 18th century

tomb of jahangir, shadera, near lahore. c.1626

cave temple, 2nd century b.c.

facade of cave temple

 interior of cave temple at kali, 1st century b.c.

cliffside tombs at naqsh-i rustam, near persepolis

cave dwellings at uchisar, cappadocia

remains of mohenjo daro (mound of the dead), pakistan

persepolis, the great steps of apadana terrace

ampitheatre at pergamon

temple of apollo. one of the largest temples in the ancient world, sardis. 300 b.c. - 150 a.d.

hatshepsut temple, deir el-bahri. 18th dynasty

small village at bande amir, afghanistan

the end of the world I & II

two sludgy oily drawings for an apocalypse-themed issue of spain's cosmos zine.
on a similar topic, the deaths of civilizations etc, currently reading this book:

"(the cover) drawing was made in the temple. could primitive imagination have produced anything so remarkably similar to a modern astronaut in his rocket? those strange markings at the foot of the drawing can only be an indication of the flames and gases coming from the propulsion unit."

hmm..

i mean all these ancient people came from mu anyway. anything went on mu

space wars - worlds and weapons