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Jerwan is a locality north of Mosul in the Nineveh Province of Iraq. The site is clear of vegetation and is sparsely settled. The site is famous for the ruins of an enormous aqueduct crossing the Khenis River, constructed of more than two million dressed stones and using stone arches and waterproof cement.〔T Jacobsen and S Lloyd, Sennacherib's Aqueduct at Jerwan (1935); Reade, Studies in Assyrian Geography, Revue d'Assyriologie 72 (1978); Channel 4 tv programme "Secret History: Finding Babylon's Hanging Garden, 24th November 2013〕 Some consider it to be the world's oldest aqueduct,〔AH Layard, Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, (1853).〕 predating anything the Romans built by five centuries. ==The Aqueduct of Jerwan== The aqueduct is part of the larger Atrush Canal built by the Assyrian king Sennacherib between 703 and 690BC to water Ninevah's extensive gardens,〔( The Oldest Intact Aqueduct in the World )〕 with water diverted from Khenis gorge, 50kms to the north. An inscription on the Aqueduct reads: : "Sennacherib king of the world king of Assyria. Over a great distance I had a watercourse directed to the environs of Nineveh, joining together the waters.... Over steep-sided valleys I spanned an aqueduct of white limestone blocks, I made those waters flow over it."〔( photograph of Sennecherib's inscription ).〕 Some scholars〔Wolfram von Soden, The Ancient Orient: An Introduction to the Study of the Ancient Near East. (Grand Rapids: Erdman's Publishing Company, 1985). (pp.58)〕〔Stephanie M. Dalley, Hanging Garden of Babylon: an elusive World Wonder traced. (Oxford University press, 2013).〕 believe the legends of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were actually Sennacherib’s extensive gardens in Nineveh,〔Thorkild Jacobsen and Seton Lloyd.''Sennacherib’s Aqueduct at Jerwan''Oriental Institute Publications (OIP) OIP 24.〕 not Babylon.〔Stephanie Dalley (1993). "Ancient Mesopotamian Gardens and the Identification of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon Resolved". Garden History 21: 7.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jerwan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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