🇮🇶 Iraq · Hydraulic works
Jerwan Aqueduct of Sennacherib
Neo-Assyrian (Sargonid) · Assyrian Imperial (Nineveh hydraulic corps)
Neo-Assyrian 280-m aqueduct bridge 705 BCE carrying Khosr Canal to Nineveh, largest pre-Roman.
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🇮🇶 Iraq · Hydraulic works
Neo-Assyrian (Sargonid) · Assyrian Imperial (Nineveh hydraulic corps)
Neo-Assyrian 280-m aqueduct bridge 705 BCE carrying Khosr Canal to Nineveh, largest pre-Roman.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Tell
Early Dynastic to Middle Assyrian (c.3000 BCE to 1100 BCE, peak Old Babylonian 1800–1500 BCE) · Assyrian / Mitanni / Old Babylonian (Qattara/Karana)
Major Assyrian mound Tell al-Rimah (ancient Qatara/Karana) on Sinjar plain: 600×400 m tell 30 m high with central high temple mound and Old Babylonian ziggurat stump 40×40 m, 15 m high with mudbrick…
🇮🇶 Iraq · Pyramid
Old Akkadian to Middle Assyrian, c.2600–1200 BCE · Assyrian
Ziggurat of Assur at Qal'at Sherqat — holy city of Ashur, earliest Assyrian capital (c.2600–614 BCE, core Old Akkadian/Ur III, restored Shamshi-Adad I, Shalmaneser I).