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It is interesting to see how the heavy traffic stops abruptly as one crosses from the modern to the old city. The defensive walls mark out the boundary of old Aleppo, while modern Aleppo sprawls outside. In fact, accurate archeological information about Aleppo sites is hard to come by -- the city is possibly the oldest continually inhabited city in the world (condending for the title with larger, cosmopolitan Damascus) and the presence of people living around and using ancient structures prevents the sort of in-depth archeological survey which could be done in an abandoned city. I've marked by name only the other gates of the walled city, to make the old walls obvious. The Antioch gate in particular is noteworthy -- it was constructed in the 13th century by the Ayyubid governorn al-Nasr Yusuf II (r. 1242-60), and it was re-constructed in the 15th century. Some of its stones may have come from the original roman walls and gateway. It is through this gate (rather, the gate which stood on this spot in 637) that the conquering Arab armies entered Aleppo for the first time.