The ancient timelines are sometimes so mind boggling. A 700 year empire must have seemed like a permanent state of the world. Yet here we are, little remains, and at the same time puts our current times in perspective. Ozymandias is very fitting.

700 years ago, 1325, was before the rise of the Ottomans. Before discovery and colonization of the Americas. Before the modern state. It is crazy to think that there were peoples or states that lasted 700 years and are just gone, a footnote in history.