04-14-2009, 05:26 PM
Yeah, I can see there would be problems! At least for records around bridges and roads, you have the advantage that not many cultures produced paved roads or stone bridges.
I may be wrong about Babylon. I just checked my figures from Jona's map of Babylon, and got a perimeter of 18 km including the river walls. Last time I got 36 km, but I think I converted from map scale to real wrong.
Its amazing that a mid-sized town like Athens with a million or two subjects at most was able to build and defend one of the longest city walls in the world!
I may be wrong about Babylon. I just checked my figures from Jona's map of Babylon, and got a perimeter of 18 km including the river walls. Last time I got 36 km, but I think I converted from map scale to real wrong.
Its amazing that a mid-sized town like Athens with a million or two subjects at most was able to build and defend one of the longest city walls in the world!
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I have not checked this forum frequently since 2013, but I hope that these old posts have some value. I now have a blog on books, swords, and the curious things humans do with them.
I have not checked this forum frequently since 2013, but I hope that these old posts have some value. I now have a blog on books, swords, and the curious things humans do with them.
