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Qanats in Saudi Arabia · Mysteria

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Gently sloping tunnels that tap an aquifer and walk its water to the surface.

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🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Hydraulic works

Ayn Zubaydah Aqueduct (Zubaydah Spring Canal to Makkah)

Early Abbasid (Harun al-Rashid–Al-Amin) · Abbasid (Zubaydah bint Ja'far patronage)

Ayn Zubaydah: 35-km Abbasid 809 CE spring aqueduct from Wadi Nu'man to Haram, Makkah.