In his eighth volume of the Annals | The inscriptions on the dam explain the costs of repair and the large number of workers involved |
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From the coast to the limits of the desert are numerous ruins of small and large dams made of earth and stone | Translated from Gidrotekhnicheskoe Stroitel'stvo, No |
The opening ceremony took place in 1986, in the presence of Sheikh Zayed.
99 mi upstream of the ruins of the Great Dam | They undertook further reconstruction, creating a structure 14 meters high with extensive waterworks at both the northern and southern ends, five spillway channels, two -reinforced , a , and a 1000-meter canal to a distribution |
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Queen of Sheba: treasures from ancient Yemen | Water Resources and Environmental History |
Whenever they wanted to they could irrigate their crops from it, by just letting out however much water they needed from sluice gates; once they had used enough they would close the gates again as they pleased.
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