Saqiyah
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A sāqiyah or saqiya, also spelled sakia or saqia is a mechanical water lifting device. It is also called a Persian wheel, tablia, rehat, and in Latin tympanum. It is similar in function to a scoop whe
The Saqiyah, c. 1905
'Punjab Wheel', India c.1917
A Nubian saqiyah in the 19th century
Watercolour painting titled 'Persian wheel near Amritsar', painted in 1864–65 by William Simpson
Kingdom of Kush
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The Kingdom of Kush, also known as the Kushite Empire, or simply Kush, was an ancient kingdom in Nubia, centered along the Nile Valley in what is now northern Sudan and southern Egypt.
Saqiyah
…other parts of the Middle East, and in the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands. It may have been invented in Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, Iran, Kush or India. The sāqiyah was mainly used for irrigation, but not exclusively, as the example of Qusayr 'Amra shows, where it was used at least in part to…
Kushite heartland, and Kushite Empire of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt, c. 700 BC
Megaliths from Nabta Playa displayed in the Aswan Nubian museum
"A-Group" style, Nubian pottery, Musee du Louvre
Kerma bowl, 1700-1550 BC. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston