Khondok Trench Area

This guide to the Khondok Trench Area in Medina returns to 627, when a coalition said to number ten thousand marched on a city that had never faced a siege, and the Persian convert Salman proposed a defense Arabia had never tried: a trench along the one open stretch of ground. It follows the frantic six-day dig, with Muhammad working the earth himself, and the duel that erupted when the feared Meccan champion Amr ibn Abd Wudd leapt his horse across the ditch and challenged the defenders. Stand along this stretch, where a shovel and a sword each had their moment.