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Trees and Weapons eat up culture
Weapons and cannons are quickly destroyed. With one single bang a whole house is gone. Nature needs more time to possess a building and to make it into an rose-overgrown fairytale cottage. The only certainty is of coming decay. At war you don`t have to kill all of the people of another culture; driving them out of their houses and settlements is sufficient to destroy their culture. The conqueror doesn`t need to bother about the buildings and places of a culture, nature will look after them for him. It only takes a couple of generations before the remnants of a former hig culture is overgrown with grass, invisible and forgotten. It has happened a few cultures in world history. They were besieged and sank in the quicksand of history. A thousand years later the ruins were excavated. It happens in India, Mexico or Cambodia, to which this picture relates. Archaeologists freed the temple city of Angkor. The jungle had sprawled over the holy city and the roots of the rain forest giants burst the temple wall so the buildings fell apart. With exhausting work over decades some temples were set free to show the marvels of this sunken culture and its creations. Visitors ask themselves how such a high culture could simply disappear. There was war again and guns and cannons shot against the restored buildings. The people were hunted and the territory prohibited. The ruins were left once more to the rainforest.