A series of tunnels near the Amal Stream in the Beit She’an Valley were created by the Mamluk Empire some 600 years ago to power mills used to process sugar, a new study has found, shedding new light ...
AMMAN — Watermills were in use in Jordan until 1970s and these structures date from the Ayyubid (1171‒1260) and Mamluk period (1260‒1516). These watermills were operating as bread mills until quite ...