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Persepolis's vast complex of towering pillars and ruins used to be thronged with tourists, most of them Iranians but quite a few of them foreign.

Several buildings, burnt out during the anarchy that engulfed Albania last year, are just ruins, used only as target practice by budding soldiers.But these days the village is reeling from the effects of violence on a far bigger scale.

"The architecture is serving much more than an ordering device," says Lillie, walking into the final room that addresses time, full of broken columns and fractured pediments, crumbling ruins used to express the destruction of the old order when Jesus appears on the scene.

"But when we animated our cameras to fly over the ruins," using 3-D software, "the geometric shapes revealed themselves fully".

The next year saw the burning down of a Sufi building in the western Iranian town of Boroujerd, followed by obliteration of the ruins using bulldozers.

In one remarkable scene, a group of unemployed young men standing amidst ruins use a rope tied to a pickup truck to pull down an abandoned building.

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Neighbors knew it only as a ruin used to dry tobacco and as a communal kitchen for preserving meats.

But by 763 Ctesiphon had been superseded by the newly founded city of Baghdad, and Ctesiphon's deserted ruins were used as a quarry for building materials.

In a neighborhood called Jabal Badro, a man and his young son meticulously hunted through the ruins that used to be their house for anything salvageable.