City Walls
Unexpected reasons for city walls & tips for breaking sieges
The protagonist of my novel Civil Mage is a Bronze Age mage-priest and one of her primary duties during the Beetle Siege was to maintain the city walls with her thaumaturgy (divine magic). So obviously I needed to know more about how ancient city walls worked...
Fun Facts
Nebuchadnezzar II built three 40ft tall walls around Babylon wide enough to race cha…
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