When we've all gone...

Fascinating article about how the remaints of what we've left on the Earth will vanish with time once the humans race is gone.

How much would we leave behind? What would an alien visitor learn about
us upon landing on our planet a century or more after we had
disappeared from it?

The answer, astonishingly, is: almost nothing.

Within a hundred years most traces of our modern-day lives would be so destroyed by weather, corrosion, earth tremors, surviving animals, insects and bacteria that the monuments and hieroglyphics of ancient civilisations would be better preserved than our buildings and our billions of books and electronic records.

Washed away: Harrods, London's premier department store, rots among
derelict double-decker buses in flood waters caused by the bursting of
the Thames barrier


Fall of Rome: The Colosseum is destroyed as Italy's capital is engulfed in flames


New York: Once magnificent skyscrapers would rot away


Rust in peace: Made of steel, the Eiffel Tower, France's monument to the industrial age, teeters


Last civilisation: The ancient Sphinx and Great Pyramid of Gaza would remain, while modern buildings would crumble

It's intriguing how they mention that some of the ancient ruins will survive much much longer than any of what modern man have succeeded in creating. A testament to their might and glory indeed.

Check out more pics and read the rest of the article here: Dailymail