Aden tanks .. Masterpiece in Yemen

Hardly a visitor to the city of Aden senses greatness evoke this city of history, unless standing in front of building tanks, a Chi addition to being one of the most prominent techniques of water early in human history, the most important engineering feats of historical age-old, Mounap and grandeur and luxury bumper of urbanization old Yemeni. According to historical references the mention of Aden tanks (known as long-tanks) contained in many sources, the most important inscriptions predicate, and the book (circumambulation around the Sea of Eritrea) in the first century AD. Despite the different historical sources on the history of the establishment of cisterns of Aden, but some felt that the construction of several stages over the first was in the era Sabaeans in the first millennium BC. With restore some historical studies of the creation era tanks to Humairi (first century AD). The next I and Ibn Battuta tanks of Aden by name in the centuries XIII and XIV, when they have seen working regularly in the service of people and ships navigation. The world I'm Yemeni Aldepa (1461 - 1536 AD), saw that it was built in the early sixteenth century AD. He is said and by the nineteenth century, these tanks may Antmrt underground. But the British tanks in the rediscovered in 1930 has shown occupation of Aden, and re-restored. But restored by the British, as they say - not as sinks to divert water to reservoirs within the city, but Ksharrij to store water in long, and added to a huge tank that was not there before the truck knew Coughlan. Among the reports that the engineers intervened they built dams goal reservation stones and silt before it descends to the water, a task that was carried out by the banks themselves before they are converted to reservoirs. However, the objective in mind - according to the references - the establishment of the tanks is to collect rainwater for use on the one hand and disposed of as soon as possible to defend the city of Aden in cases of heavy rains and flash floods. The researchers estimated the number of tanks, long ancient in origin, about 50 tanks, mostly hidden underground or in shambles, and the total number of existing ones are now 18 tanks to accommodate up to 20 million gallons of water, and it was this capacity of 80 million gallons in times of completion of the tanks. Today is a tank of the most important tourist attractions in the governorate of Aden, which for expatriates, especially Arabs, part of their history .. For the family art collection, shows the greatness of the Yemeni people first. The work of rehabilitation and maintenance In past years has been the implementation of several operations for the maintenance, restoration and cleaning tanks and long rehabilitation teacher archaeological tourism is important, and revive its role as an establishment for the storage and disposal of water. The British company in the restoration work and maintenance, under the program of field work by experts from UNESCO and UNDP for the United Nations, as part of an international campaign aimed at the rehabilitation tanks to benefit from a functional and tourism. The General Authority to preserve the historic cities develop modern devices for measuring the air in order to monitor the accumulation of rain clouds and showers rates and quantities of water resulting from them, and then to prepare the tanks to operate, depending on the numbers and accurate information. As part of efforts to revitalize the role of tourism for Tanks Yemeni authorities have established a garden in the tanks, and established the Ministry of Culture of Yemen since 2003 Forum culturally active in behalf of Aden (Aden Cultural Forum tanks). The talk was before not too long about the preparation of a large annual cultural festival in Aden, on behalf of the tanks like similar festivals in the region. What efforts are directed towards the development of the museum based in the tanks to become a center of information and historical documents of the tanks and on Aden in general.