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Photograph by Charles E. Moser 



the Famous tanks of adex. set deep in the pockets of surrounding hills, 



where they catch and store the scant rainfall of this 



region of arabia 



Who built these great reservoirs archaeologists will not venture to say definitely, but they 

 are supposed to have been the work of the Hemyarites. the enlightened sons of Sheba's 

 queen. They are supposed to be 1,500 years old. and for centuries they were filled with 

 debris and forgotten. An English officer excavated them in 1856 and found their masonry 

 still intact. 



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