SIrkap
Philostratus, who visited Taxila (Sirkap) in the first century, described it as a symmetrical, fortified city based on a Greek model and the same size as Nineveh. Taught by the experience of a serious earthquake in 30 AD, the inhabitants of the city had at this time rebuilt the houses in only two storeys, the lower storey of which was half below ground level. Sirkap, which was originally built in the first part of the second century BC, seemed than to a Greek traveler to be an old city with new houses.