would stop the flow of immigration from Central and South America. Trump’s proposed wall on the southern border of the U.S. But there is a common connection, which is the idea of keeping outsiders out. Nowadays, they are built more to prevent immigration, terrorism, or the flow of illegal drugs. The ancient walls were built primarily for defensive purposes. People have been building walls since the tenth millennium B.C. ” But he is latching onto something ancient, isn’t he? When National Geographic caught up with Frye by phone at his home in Connecticut, he explained how the ancient world was split between wallers and non-wallers, how the Berlin Wall set a precedent by being the first wall to keep people in, and why America and so many other nations are “forting up.” President Trump gave the idea of excluding outsiders with walls a contemporary twist when he vowed to build a “ big, beautiful wall. Only the people being shut out have changed. But as David Frye reveals in his new book, Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick, the idea of constructing barriers to keep others out-or, in the case of the Berlin Wall, to keep people in-is as ancient as human civilization. highway system, estimated to cost $18 to $40 billion. If it is ever built, President Donald Trump’s much-vaunted wall, which is supposed to stretch for nearly 2,000 miles along the United States’s border with Mexico, would be the largest infrastructure project since the U.S.
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