[mware]

The discovery of the drainage channel was momentous in itself, a sign of how the city's rulers looked out for the welfare of their citizens by organizing a system that drained the rainfall and prevented flooding, Reich said.

The discovery "shows you planning on a grand scale, unlike other cities in the ancient Near East,"

Unlike some cities in Louisiana who will remain nameless.

[muawiyah]

Just about ALL the cities of any size in the ancient Near East/Middle East were planned to the nines ~ and that’s because the folks doing the planning had already figured out how cities had to be planned, but they did it somewhere else ~ probably Ukraine.