Drawing of a sagia

Claire Thorne

British Museum
London, United Kingdom

Illustration of a sagia by Claire Thorne.mBy the 2nd or 3rd century BC (the Ptolemaic period) the waterwheel was used to irrigate (water) crops in Egypt and Sudan. Sagias were used in Egypt and Sudan up until the twentieth century.

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Title: Drawing of a sagia
Creator: Claire Thorne
Copyright: © The Trustees of the British Museum, shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
British Museum website: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/research_projects/all_current_projects/sudan/amara_west_research_project/sustainability_and_subsistence.aspx

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