nigelswift wrote:
http://home.tiac.net/~cri/2005/petra.html
Which Man deemed old two thousand years ago.Match me such marvel save in Eastern clime,
A rose-red city half as old as time.
H G Wells, writing 77 years later, seems to have matched such a marvel :-) Wonderful indeed it is, a vast circumvallation that was already two thousand years old before the dawn of British history...