After a disastrous earthquake in 447, the land walls were rebuilt, this time with an outer curtain and a new moat, completing what we know today as the fortifications of Constantinople. During the ...

Van Milligen, Alexander; "Byzantine Constantinople" This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.

Constantinople and the triple line of walls that were built over time. Credit: Jniemenmaa / Wikimedia Commons According to experts, what we know of that original wall is not due to Byzas but to the ...