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Edited Jun 25, 2009, 10:09
John William Burgon: Petra
Jun 25, 2009, 10:03
nigelswift wrote:


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...

See http://heritageaction.wordpress.com/
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