this reminds me of the destruction of the Parthenon in the late 17th century...The stupid Ottoman Turks used the temple to store gunpowder. The temple still had been relatively well preserved for 2 millenniums, until one night in the year of 1687, the gunpowder blew up and severely damaged the building. Much part of it had fallen into rubble...The next year after this great explosion, the Turks took the rubble and built a small mosque upon the ruins...Through the rest of the time, the survived remains continued to crumble and disintegrate, and then becomes what we could see it today, which is still a magnificent piece of monument...
But I could imagine it would be really really awe-inspiring, if we could see how the Parthenon looked before the 17th century...