Norias of Hama

The Norias of the antiquated Syrian city of Hama are seventeen memorable waterwheels situated along the Orontes River that go back to the Byzantine Era, despite the fact that local people guarantee they are more established still. The water wheels, called Noria, are a piece of the city's presently outdated water system framework, and were intended to lift water from the waterway and move it through reservoir conduits to horticultural fields and individuals' home.

The wheels were controlled by the ebb and flow of the streaming waterway. As the wheels moved, wooden cans put at the fringe of the wheels scooped water out from the stream and exhausted it into reservoir conduits. Gravity at that point drives the water along reservoir conduits to its goal in different parts of the city. By the present day there were 17 of the memorable wheels as yet remaining over the city, some appended to old structures, others simply standing free as the city changed around them.

The notorious relics were even to be viewed as ensured UNESCO curios, yet tragically this assignment presently can't seem to be affirmed. Tragically, it might be past the point of no return in any occasion. Late reports from the war-torn locale propose that a few, if not the greater part of the Norias may have been burned to the ground. For history's purpose how about we trust that these reports are enormously misrepresented.