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“You’re trying to accomplish something and you’re doing really great and then you have a flare-up and it just like ... it ruins your whole life for six months,” he said.

Hampi, an ancient village in the south Indian state of Karnataka, is home to numerous ruins and temples from the Vijayanagara Empire.

“It ruins the illusion that you can do anything.”

There are also lessons learned from other ravaged cities which rose from the ruins including Hiroshima, Beirut, and Berlin.

Employing techniques otherwise used to excavate ancient burial sites, they can search for human remains in the ruins of burned houses.