By the 13th century, the place was completely abandoned, prey to pillagers, many of its proudly carved stones burned into lime.
Tantalizing clues include a large pile of ballast stones, burned wood, rum bottles and Ming porcelain shards dating from the Kidd era.
Voicing anxiety that the treatment center would put nearby schoolchildren at risk of infection, the angry residents threw stones, burned several tents in the treatment compound and blocked the road leading there with tires.
According to Navi Pillay, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights, there are 5,000 instances annually when women and girls are shot, stoned, burned, buried alive, strangled, smothered and knifed to death by fathers, brothers, sons, uncles, even mothers in the name of preserving family "honor".
How does a family decide to kill? "In the name of preserving so-called family honour, women and girls are shot, stoned, burned, buried alive, strangled, smothered and knifed to death," said a statement from the UN on International Women's Day.
An innocent man is stoned and burned alive in a scene of quite stunning nastiness: "I beg, Peter.
Between the 16th century and the early 20th century, overly enthusiastic Europeans listed more than 100 medicinal uses for it, including treating anemia, poor appetite, mental fatigue, low sexual desire, fever, gout, kidney stones, burns and bowel dysfunction.
Against All Odds by Dan Connell, Revolution at Dusk by Robert Papstein and Even the Stones are Burning by Roy Pateman are the best-known.
No aspirant to higher office was stoned, doused or burned at the stake!
That same weekend, in the Barbes neighbourhood of the capital, stone-throwing protesters burned Israeli flags: "Israhell", read one banner.
