EditorialFugitives cross a moat swimming with goat skins or bladders Detail from Ashurnazirpal's siege of a city. Stone bas-relief (9th BCE) from the palace of Ashurnazirpal II in Nimrud, Mesopotamia.
EditorialPavia, Lombardy, Italy, Europe. The Visconti Castle of Pavia was built in 1360 by Galeazzo II Visconti. The complex consists of the castle, the garden and the remains of the northern wall. It has three access bridges with drawbridge and the moat. The b...
EditorialHuis te Voorst. Tonneel van Nederlandse Lusthooven... Amsterdam, 1718. Depiction of the Huis te Voorst, outside Zutphen, belonging to his Excellency the Earl of Albemarle (ca. 1700). The view contains various touches of fantasy: the moat could never ha...