Mesopotamian linear barriers
Sumerian 1. Muriq Tidnim (conjectural) Babylonian Line 1 2. Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylon to Kish Wall (conjectural) Babylonian Line 2 3. Habl es-Sakhar (Nebuchadnezzar’s Sippar to Opis Wall, Median Wall) Line 3 (uncertain) 4. El-Mutabbaq 5. Sadd Nimrud (also called El-Jalu) 6. Umm Raus Wall (site of Macepracta Wall(?), Artaxerxes’ Trench(?)) Sasanian Khandaq-i-Shapur Mesopotamia and the Rivers […]
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