Hi Robert, a lovely piece that intersects all over the place. I have three intersects come to mind:
1) In 2016, we visited the UNESCO WOrld Heritage site of Polonnaruwa in Sri Lanka, the city of a former kingdom that was lost to the forests until the British dug them down to build tea plantations and found the lost city. It's an astonishing site, with doctor's offices and temples, and, supposedly, the resting place for the Buddha's tooth (now in Kandy). It was burned by invaders in the 13th Century and quickly grown over.
2) I am reading The Forest People by Colin Turnbull about the Pygmies he lived with, and how the non-Pygmy tribes that the Pygmies traded with (to keep it simple) lived on 'plantations' they cleared from the forest that required absolute constant work to prevent being immediately recovered by that forest.
3) And on my recent One Step Beyond podcast, talking to travel writer Shafik Meghji, he discusses "the unlikely tourist destination of Canvey Wick," on the Essex estuary coast in England, where. "Located just 30 miles east of London, an abandoned oil refinery on the edge of the Thames Estuary has become an unlikely wildlife haven." Which I think answers your question about what could happen if Phoenicia were abandoned as suddenly as Machu Picchu.
Hi Robert, a lovely piece that intersects all over the place. I have three intersects come to mind:
1) In 2016, we visited the UNESCO WOrld Heritage site of Polonnaruwa in Sri Lanka, the city of a former kingdom that was lost to the forests until the British dug them down to build tea plantations and found the lost city. It's an astonishing site, with doctor's offices and temples, and, supposedly, the resting place for the Buddha's tooth (now in Kandy). It was burned by invaders in the 13th Century and quickly grown over.
2) I am reading The Forest People by Colin Turnbull about the Pygmies he lived with, and how the non-Pygmy tribes that the Pygmies traded with (to keep it simple) lived on 'plantations' they cleared from the forest that required absolute constant work to prevent being immediately recovered by that forest.
3) And on my recent One Step Beyond podcast, talking to travel writer Shafik Meghji, he discusses "the unlikely tourist destination of Canvey Wick," on the Essex estuary coast in England, where. "Located just 30 miles east of London, an abandoned oil refinery on the edge of the Thames Estuary has become an unlikely wildlife haven." Which I think answers your question about what could happen if Phoenicia were abandoned as suddenly as Machu Picchu.
Cheers,
Tony