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    Sadd el-Kafara ("Dam of the Infidels") was a masonry embankment dam on Wadi al-Garawi 10 km southeast of Helwan in Cairo, Egypt. The dam was built in the...
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    Dam in Jordan, dating to 3,000 BC. Egyptians also built dams, such as Sadd-el-Kafara Dam for flood control. In modern-day India, Dholavira had an intricate...
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    reservoir or a storm drain. An early diversion dam is the Ancient Egyptian Sadd el-Kafara Dam at Wadi Al-Garawi, which was located about twenty five kilometres...
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    Red Pyramid. Also during this period (between 2686 and 2498 BC) the Sadd el-Kafara dam, which used an estimated 100,000 cubic meters of rock and rubble...
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    Sabu-Jaddi Sadd el-Kafara Saft el-Hinna Saint Catherine, Egypt Sais, Egypt Saldae Samannud Sanam, Sudan Sassura Scebatiana Sebilian Sebkha-El-Coursia Sedeinga...
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  • cipher or key to understand. Diversion dam – The first Diversion dam is Sadd el-Kafara Dam built in Egypt around 2700 B.C. Noria – Norias appeared in Egypt...
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    humidity and its diurnal average temperature variation is slightly larger. Sadd el-Kafara, one of the earliest prehistoric man-made dams in the world. Harold...
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