After the excavations in 1827, the ruins fell into decay.

The ruins fell behind; abruptly the road plunged into a gloomy thicket of vines and shrubs that shut out the sunlight.

Sunlight was still shining in the sky, but long shadows reached over Isengard: grey ruins falling into darkness.

How is it that the ruins there have never fallen?

Although the ruins did not fall victim to the bulldozer, the palace remained neglected until the Revolutions of 1989.

The same ruins, columns fallen and tumbled, some nearly intact, others barely discernible from the natural rocks.

Pompeii's ruins are falling further into ruin through neglect, erosion and vandalism.

The tumbling ruins, fixed and frozen in time and space, did not fall.

Like many other similar foundations, it was destroyed by the Danes and the ruins subsequently fell into the sea.

The lighthouse was destroyed, toppling into the same harbor where the Ptolemaic ruins fell.