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Aqueducts in Iraq · Mysteria

CategoriesAqueducts

Aqueducts

Channels and arcades that carried water to a city across whatever lay between.

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🇮🇶 Iraq

🇮🇶 Iraq · Hydraulic works

Jerwan Aqueduct of Sennacherib

Neo-Assyrian (Sargonid) · Assyrian Imperial (Nineveh hydraulic corps)

Neo-Assyrian 280-m aqueduct bridge 705 BCE carrying Khosr Canal to Nineveh, largest pre-Roman.

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🇮🇶 Iraq · Hydraulic works

Nineveh Khinis (Bavian) Aqueduct Head — Sennacherib Mountain Aqueduct Source

Neo-Assyrian 690 BCE · Neo-Assyrian Sennacherib

Mountain head reliefs and 17-spring capture merging to 55 km Nineveh canal.