I have seen the city as ruin twice, but have no save...sorry
I have decided in my new game to thwart Arabia....I played as Persia.
Knowing that the barbarian Horse Archers would be coming I set up a stack of spear and swords on the forest hills at my northern border which worked perfectly might I add. My 3 spear and 2 swords destroyed everything coming down form the north, and built veterans for my later war with India.
Greece was strong holding its homeland, Byzantion and Hattasus. Rome was destroyed by barbarians, but Roma and Mediolanum remained as barbarian strongholds ;-) By the time the euro civs spawned, Spain, France and Germany all put a city in former Roman lands.
Ur did NOT flip to Arabia as I had enough culture in the city so Saladin was restricted to Jerusalem and Tyrus. So what was Arabia to do? For the first time i saw the AI scatter its settlers to the wind!
Arabia settled in Africa west of the Egyptian cities in the dessert and another in Leptis Minor. Also north of Persia, north of Nineveh, one city in the Balkans.
I built my army fearing the Arabian camels, but we are now friendly, so my huge army is poised to take the rich lands of the Indians...
I am #1 in score, #2 in tech (behind Arabs). China is weak, but i expect them to rise as they joined me in attacking the old sick man of Asia (India).