• Sheikh Zayed dancing the traditional dance "Bara'a" with a Jambiya along with Yemeni locals in Marib after the reopening of the Marib Dam.
  • Constructed around the 8th century BCE, this monumental dam stands as a testament to the ingenuity and advanced technological capabilities of the Sabaeans.
  • One of these ancient dams is the Great Marib Dam. Its ruins are very close to another modern one, near the city of the same name, ancient capital of the...
  • The Marib Dam, also known as Ma'arib Dam, is a newly constructed dam which is located 3 km (2 mi) upstream from the ruins of the old ancient Marib Dam, in the.
  • Near the ancient city of Marib, in Yemen, lies the ruins of a great dam. ... Ruins of The Great Dam of Marib. Photo credit: George Steinmetz.
  • The Great Dam of Marib dates back to about the 8th century BC and is counted by some as one of the most wonderful feats of engineering in the ancient world.
  • This is how the geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi, a Syrian Muslim of Greek origin who lived between the 12th and 13th centuries described the Great Dam of Marib
  • True to this maxim, the subjects of the ancient Kingdom of Sheba in Marib collected water by building a gigantic dam so as to be able to supply their cities with this...
  • Detailed explanation-1: -Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World Harry: The Marib dam was built by the ancient Sabaeans of modern Yemen...
  • The Great Dam made it possible to irrigate over one hundred square kilometres of sandy soil around Marib, which was the largest city in southern Arabia.