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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You’d think there’d be a reason beyond construction requirements, though—otherwise someone in the past 1,500 years would have replaced it with a more conventional wall.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

They did. This is only the oldest, innermost fortification in the city. AFAIK additional layers of walls were build around it later.