Hama’s norias preserve centuries of water engineering
Damascus, Sept. 29 (SANA) A 21-meter wooden waterwheel beside Syria’s Orontes River stands among the largest surviving examples of the system that once carried water to Hama’s orchards, homes and public buildings. Known as al-Muhammadiyya, the noria has an inscription dating its structures to 763 AH, or 1361 CE. Its aqueduct carried water toward the […]