Without their help, Henry and I would never have found the ruins.

By now, surely, they might have found at least the ruins of an outpost.

And that's when they found the ruins of a computer.

They've found clear ground, cultivatable land and the ruins of that old fort.

"I found the ruins, but I haven't had a chance to look at them."

"I hope you found the ruins as instructive as we do."

Maybe they would have been better off if they had not found the ruins.

They found the ruins of an ancient civilization while digging for oil.

Anthropologists have found the ruins of an ancient civilization under the city.

It being obvious to me that someone had found the ruins of a 21st Century personal computer.