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🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Nabataean 2nd c. BCE–106 CE with Thamudic rock art use · Nabataean (Arab Petra sphere)
Wadi Rum (Iram) – Nabataean desert hydraulic landscape: free-standing dams (Abu Khashabah), rock-cut cisterns (bir, e.g., Lawrence spring cistern), channelized Jabal Rum seep capture and 300+…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hydraulic works
Middle Iron Age Atlantic (vitrified forte) · Minch Hebridean islanders
Summit vitrified dun (28×18 m) with plastered rock-cut rain cistern (5.5 m³) on Garbh Eilean, Shiants.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Hellenistic to Byzantine 250 BCE–450 CE · Hellenistic Balqa then Roman Decapolis chora
Walled twin cisterns 22×12×6 m 2,800 m³ with 420-m channel + 18 m dam closing gully — Hellenistic cistern-city 580×320 m.
🇬🇷 Greece · Temple complex
Geometric to Classical ~750–300 BCE · Corinthian Greek
Corinth's cliff sanctuary of Hera on coastal lagoon with apsidal 750 BCE temple and cistern.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Punic to Byzantine (3rd c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Punic / Roman
Corridor municipium between Zaghouan and Fahs with press row.
