The Assyrian method of irrigation. The water was raised up the high banks of the Tigris using a skin which ended in a funnel, once at the top it was discharged into a trough and connected with an irrigation channel.

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The Assyrian method of irrigation. The water was raised up the high banks of the Tigris using a skin which ended in a funnel, once at the top it was discharged into a trough and connected with an irrigation channel. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.

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