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October 19, 2016
"History may not repeat itself but
—oh wait, yes it does." -- Remus, Woodpile
Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 19, 2016 6:16 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
Yes, since before the beginning of recorded history, cites have been sacked and burned to the ground from within or without, and abandoned to be swallowed by the jungle or the sands. For hundreds of years, everyone avoided the place, for the shadows of unnamed evil shrouded in vague memories and campfire tales lurked there still. The evil created when the inhabitants got lazy and let or put some fuckwits in charge of themselves.
Millennia later, explorers came and excavated the remains, and wondered about the mysterious tragedy that befell the peaceful and graceful inhabitants of their paradise on Earth.
Only a few of the great cities of antiquity escaped that ultimate fate. Many of the rest were sacked, abandoned and re-colonized. Some places are just too well-situated to leave abandoned for long.
Far better to be a small city. The competing tyrants fight to possess the city intact. Unless Genghis Khan or Timur come calling.
Posted by: John A. Fleming at October 19, 2016 11:27 PM