[ProtectOurFreedom]

The upper, square-shaped basins were used by people to press grapes underfoot, extracting the juice which ran off into the lower circular basins.

Doesn't look like a very good factory site, but I guess using impervious rocks and the built-in slope on the hill was practical.

[SunkenCiv]

The Assyrian kings of that era had a favorite phrase for their commemorative self-aggrandizing battle scenes — “I burned with fire”. ;^) Now, imagine the same kings a little hungover and thirsty. Heh... “just build it here, no, I don’t care how screwy the site is. It’ll be both our asses otherwise!”