Sennacherib built it around 690 BC to carry his canal across a valley on the way from Khinis to Nineveh, from millions of stone blocks.
Parts of its walls still stand, and some stones bear the king’s inscription.
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Jerwan Aqueduct
قنطرة جروانة
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