Water wheel (called Noria) dating back to Byzantine times (14the century)
Syria, Hama, May 2009
These giant wooden wheels of 20 m. diameter scooped water from the Orontes river and deposited it into the aquaducts behind the wheel. The water then flowed to nearby fields and gardens. Of the more than 30 norias only 17 remain. They still turn today in summer time.
well... history let us such a wonderful things... we have only to keep them... for the next citizen wich are coming behaind us... but.... unfortunatly, day by day, monuments and history withnes.. disepeare.. cos of our mistaike..:(
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