Professor Edmund Richardson
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And once the Tyrians realize this is happening, they basically just have to engage in this kind of race with Alexander's squadron to see if they can actually get back into the harbor.
Most of them make it back.
Some of them are cut off.
But after that, they're basically bottled up in Tyre.
And meanwhile, Diades' promontory has actually reached the island of Tyre.
Diades has done it.
He's done the impossible.
So he's done it.
He's done the impossible.
And this promontory, by the way, still there.
The city of Tyre still got this long, long, kilometer-long promontory between the mainland and what was the island city.
So this isn't just a bit of siege engineering.
This is something which changes the geography of the city permanently.
The promontory...
The prominence is astonishing.
One of the things I was trying to do in the book was kind of model, okay, well, just exactly how much kind of material would this have taken?
And it's like equivalent of, you know, 888 or so
Statues of Liberty or a 13th of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
So this vast feat of ancient engineering, when you bear in mind this is done just over the course of six or seven months, it's one of the most remarkable engineering feats in history.
ancient history.
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