A great amount of treasure, such as gold and jewels was found in the palace, also quantities of arms and ammunition. Of the latter only the away to Burma. The remainder were destroyed or thrown into the river.
Thus fell Ayut'ia, four hundred and seventeen years after its foundation by King Ramma T'ibodi I . In 1568 the city fell through treachery, in 1767 through the inefficiency and corruption of those in power. A new Ayut'ia may to-day be seen, bur the old Ayut'ia was never rebuilt. It is still a mass of ruins, over which the tropical jungle spreads like a green mantle, as though to hide the handiwork of the Burmese from the sight of Heaven.
Among other irreplaceable treasures, almost all the written records of the kingdom were burnt, and for many years it seemed as though all certain trace of the histoly of Siam had vanished. But later kings were destined to collect and piece together the scattered fragments, until, little by little, some account of the story of the old capital was written down, full of gaps and errors yet still retaining some semblance of the truth.