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To: SunkenCiv

Those walls are fantastic!


5 posted on 06/01/2013 1:10:31 PM PDT by chesty_puller (Viet Nam 1970-71 He who shed blood with me shall forever be my brother. Shak.)
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To: chesty_puller

Yep. Nothing makes my afternoon like good Ninevehn masonry.


6 posted on 06/01/2013 1:16:05 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: chesty_puller; gorush; Viennacon

It’s a nice reconstruction, suggests how remarkable it must have been in its heyday.

There was a dam on the river which made it possible to feed both the drinking water and irrigation needs and fill the large moat which protected the city. In extremis, the dam was breached, the water ran out, and the Babylonians, Medes, and Scythians sacked and ruined the city.


8 posted on 06/01/2013 1:20:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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