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these are incredible. the upper right section, outside the wall. my guess is the baby volcano thing is the old roman amphitheater... but try as i might, i cannot figure out what that also-probably-roman and very long structure is to its left (northeast of the amphitheater, east of the city). by the 1400s the structure seems to be gone and all that remains is a depression converted into farm land.
it's massive... some kind of old colosseum for like chariot racing?
Exactly! It is called a Circus. Though one might be more familiar with the Greek name, Hippodrome.
wow, it's incredible! the two images sent me on a rabbit hole trying to investigate the city. the history of it is amazing. can't imagine living in the shadow of ancient imperial infrastructure. in the US, it's more frequently like, "on this site, there was a very retro-futurist looking McDonalds in the 1970s. we can only imagine what sorts of burgers and sodas they once ordered. today, we can enter the more modern-looking and sleek McDonalds built on the old site."
Don't forget the pueblo culture or Mississippian culture. The US isn't as densely filled with ancient infrastructure but it's there
yeah sure. I've been to Chaco and Mesa Verde and they are awesome etc, but the settler culture was hostile to the earlier peoples and obliterated everything it could recognize near the settler developments.