Archaeologists dig them

Usage examples of ruins.

Torches threw wings of light over the ruins, and their heat surrounded her like a prison built with walls of fire.

Slowly these figures descended through a fortress, seen half as ruins, half as the ghost of the fortress that was once whole.

The ruins ended at a shoreline as abruptly as if a knife had sheared them off.

What if this black-haired Salian girl was his mother, and the shade in the ruins truly his father?

Alain did not have the heart to go back to the old ruins, knowing he would only find them empty.

When they came to the clearing they halted to look out over the ruins, bare stone tumbled in a spring meadow strewn with yellow and white flowers.

Rage from bolting down into the ruins or attacking the frater as well, he noticed too late when the wind turned and the hounds stilled abruptly, unnaturally.

I have seen such ruins in my years, which were surely the work of giants, but never one as perfectly preserved as this.

Keim who also did work on Southwestern American ruins with an archeologist named Moore.

Although the old castle is gone, the new one on its ruins has its old haunts, and those old haunts their ancient duties.

Vast ruins had lain around them, the skeleton of a city that had once claimed the land.

What of Alain, whom she had last seen staggering, half dead, through the ruins of a battlefield?

He surveyed the ruins with the eye of a man familiar with ancient buildings.

I reached it, everything in ruins, and Anne had left already with the survivors.

Always, as he passed, he would first smell and then see a half dozen or more scraping mindlessly at the dirt or rocking from side to side in the ruins of their old shelters.