Archaeologica.org

Detroit presents all archetypal buildings of an American city in a state of mummification. Its splendid decaying monuments are, no less than the Pyramids of Egypt, the Coliseum of Rome, or the Acropolis in Athens, remnants of the passing of a great Empire. Photographers Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre began a five-year collaboration starting in 2005 to document this ‘Empire’ at the moment of collapse.