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Cuneiform writing on the Jerwan Aqueduct (703-690 BCE). King Sennacherib I of Assyria made sure that, thousands of years later, people would know that it was he who ordered the construction of this feat of Assyrian engineering.

A levada or aqueduct on the Portuguese island of Madeira. Levadas were built by Portuguese colonists to improve irrigation of plantations of wheat and sugar cane from the late 15th century onwards.

The high-level aqueduct of Caesarea built by Herod the Gret (r. 37-4 BCE), Caesarea Maritima, Israel.

A detail of one of the lower arches of the Pont del Diable aqueduct, Tarraco (Tarragona), Spain. Built in the 1st century CE it is 217 m long and 27 m high.

An illustration by Maia Kobabe showing an aqueduct. From the novel The Jericho River by David Tollen.

The Nîmes aqueduct, built to carry water from Uzès to Nîmes in France in the first century CE. It contains the spectacular Pont du Gard.

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