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…