Show Aqueducts in is History As far back as ns nall Babylonian onlan and Assyrian times aqueducts were used In Irrigation reign reign of or Rameses II In the Fourteenth century century cen cen- tury B B. B C. C Egypt continued channels chan chan- nels gels to make use of the time Niles Nile's s 's an annual nual anal overflow In C Cyprus the tire Phoenicians dug tunnels and hullt built s to hoist water to their temples Old Jerusalem had hid avater wa ava water ter conduits and ami so did Greece th the ancient Hadrian aqueduct only comparatively el recently ln hn having been hren hr n repaired and put hark bark Into Info 11 use f HC Most famous Arnow of uM ull I alL aque 11 ducts was that of the Roman emperor emperor em ern- Claudius builder of or the Applan Ap Ap- plan pian wa way whose cor covered red watercourse watercourse water watercourse course reaches more than ten miles mUes Into the countryside east of ot Rome Today Its ruins remain an impressive Impressive sive reminder of ot that florid time |