Myndos Gate

This guide to Myndos Gate, the twin-towered wall built by Mausolos to defend Halicarnassus, centers on the autumn of 334 BCE, when Alexander the Great's army reached this quiet stretch of fortification and found it anything but quiet. You'll hear how the gate's moat forced Alexander's engineers to improvise a wooden bridge across it, and what the defenders inside had waiting for them. Trace the moat's line in the ground and pick out the footprint of the two flanking towers.