Great Dam of Marib
c. 750 BCENotable
The Sabaean kingdom builds a dam across the Wadi Dhana in Yemen to divert seasonal floods onto two irrigated oases. Repaired for over a thousand years, its final breach around 570 CE was remembered in the Quran.
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