Ruins of Nalanda University in India: Buddhist university in 700 AD

I think the Moghuls destroyed it and sacked it at some point:

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The great library of Nalanda University was so vast that it is reported to have burned for three months after the Moguls set fire to it, sacked and destroyed the ...

Here is a photo I took of it in December 1985: