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Khaybar Oasis Fortifications, photograph by Royal Commission of AlUla, Saudi Arabia. Ancient fortifications on top of a basalt hill in the Khaybar Oasis. Evidence of Bronze Age settlements can be found in the ruins found today.

An artist's impression of how the fortifications of a Hellenistic period city such as Syracuse may have looked like.

Confederate fortifications at Fort Mahone during the Siege of Petersburg in the American Civil War, 1865. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

A section of the fortifications of Carcassonne, southern France.

A photograph of German troops having captured the French fortifications at Maubeuge in the early stages of the First World War (1914-18). Imperial War Museums, London.

A 1786 map showing the defences and fortifications prior to the Siege of Charleston, South Carolina (29 March to 12 May 1780) during the American Revolutionary War. (From David Ramsey's "The History of the Revolution of South Carolina")

An illustration of the fortifications of Bristol during the English Civil Wars (1642-51). The city was stormed by Royalists led by Prince Rupert (1619-82) on 26 July 1643. The city was then lost to the Parliamentarians in September 1645...

The aqueduct and fortifications of ancient Trebizond (Trapezus), modern Trabzon, Turkey. 13th century CE.

The Inca Sacsayhuaman (also Saqsawaman) fortress-temple complex of northern Cuzco, 13th-15th century CE.

Virginia, Cold Harbor. Extreme line of Confederate Works, photographic print by John Reekie, April 1865. Depicted here are the makeshift Confederate breastworks put up at the left end of their line at the Battle of Cold Harbor (31 May to...