To: patton; SunkenCiv
There’s no date proposed in the article. Long-range catapults were in use from the Macedonian conquest period.
Maybe the walls were a public-works program: “shovel-ready stimulus” jobs, as it were. “Who cares if it does any good? Just keep building!”
20 posted on
07/17/2009 5:02:35 AM PDT by
Tax-chick
(If I can do it, it can't be that hard!)
To: Tax-chick
LOL - very good point. The Pyramids, too.
21 posted on
07/17/2009 5:07:54 AM PDT by
patton
(Obama has replaced "Res Publica" with "Quod licet Jovi non licet bovi.")
To: Tax-chick
“Dating to the 7th century B.C., the foundations unearthed...”
30 posted on
07/17/2009 7:08:11 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
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