The Sands Of Time

A great king once build a great city in the desert that he claimed would stand for hundred thousand years. Armies of slaves dug canals and build walls to keep the desert out and by their endless labour produced a garden city for a short time. But as soon as the king had died, no-one wanted to live there; the people moved out and the desert moved in.

Within a single generation, the sands had covered everything, and not a single soul would eventually remember the king, or his name.