🇾🇪 Yemen · Hydraulic works
Marib Great Dam North Sluice Annex
Early South Arabian (800 BCE-600 CE) · Sabaean
Marib Great Dam North Sluice Annex in Marib Governorate, Yemen is a Early South Arabian (800 BCE-600 CE) hydraulic attributed to Sabaean.
🇾🇪 Yemen · Hydraulic works
Sadd al-Khanas Dam — Wadi Khanas Sabaean Retainer Dam
Sabaean (900–500 BCE) · Sabaean
Sabaean retainer dam (9.5 m high, 220 m crest) on Wadi Khanas tributary 18 km northeast of Marib Dam (1,120 m), with 2.8 km rock-cut feeder canal to Marib north sluice extension.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Jawa Dam East Reservoir System
Early Bronze Age IA · Ghassulian–Early Bronze IA (Proto-Jawa)
Eastern 72-m basalt dam and canal feeding Jawa proto-city — earliest desert irrigation.
🇾🇪 Yemen · Hydraulic works
Marib Dam East Wadi Dhana Barrage
Sabaean to Himyarite · Kingdom of Saba (Sabaean South Arabian) then Himyar
480-m east rockfill barrage of Great Marib Dam at Balaq Hills gap.
🇾🇪 Yemen · Hydraulic works
Sadd al-Arim Secondary North Dam Marib
Sabaean to Himyarite · Kingdom of Saba
210-m saddle subsidiary dam 4 km NE of Great Marib storing Jufaynah tributary.
🇾🇪 Yemen · Hydraulic works
Sadd el-Arim Secondary Dam — Marib North Spillway
South Arabian (Sabaean to Himyaritic) · Sabaean Saba and Himyarite
Marib north secondary 750-m earthen with Almaqah sluice temple 50 musnad inscriptions, Sabaean 750 BCE spillway.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Band-e Darreh South Extension Dam (Birjand Darreh South Gravity Dam)
Khwarazmian Late Islamic 1210 CE (Birjand) · Khwarazmian South Khorasan Birjand oasis
South Darreh arch-gravity 42 m × 18.2 m 8 m radius: conjunctive wadi+qanat 28,000 m³ south branch with cistern 8 m.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Hydraulic works
Aswan Old (Low) Dam North Spur — First Cataract Gravity Buttress
British colonial (Anglo-Egyptian) · Anglo-Egyptian, French engineers
1902 610-m gravity masonry 180-sluice Low Dam north spur 6 km above High Dam, world's largest masonry then.
🇾🇪 Yemen · Hydraulic works
Marib Great Dam North Sluice Annex — Northern Annex
Early South Arabian (800 BCE-600 CE) · Sabaean
Marib Great Dam North Sluice Annex — Northern Annex in Marib Governorate, Yemen is a Early South Arabian (800 BCE-600 CE) hydraulic attributed to Sabaean.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Kebar Dam South Spillway Extension (Kebar Secondary Spill)
Mongol Ikhanid–early Timurid (1300–1400 CE) original; Safavid extension 1680 · Ilkhanid–Safavid
South-bank secondary spillway extension 0.4 km south of main Kebar arch dam (26 m high, 55 m crest, oldest surviving arch dam c.1300, already in DB as kebar-dam-qom-iran) at 1,520 m.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Shushtar Band-e Ahmadi Weir (Shushtar Ahmadi Bridge-Dam)
Safavid with Sasanian spolia · Safavid Khuzestan
Band-e Ahmadi: 180-m Safavid 1680 bridge-dam 4 km south of Shushtar UNESCO, 12 arches.