Hit

When you pass the city of Ramadi, you can visit the city of Hit and enjoy watching its traditional waterwheels. This city was famous during the Sumerian-Babylonian and Assyrian eras for being a source of tar. The Assyrian king Tawaklti Nurta 889-884 BC said that Hit was built near the sources of tar in Ed. It is said, according to some accounts, that the Prophet Noah had painted his ark from this tar, and it was also used in Babylon and Ur. It is also said that the tar that Nebuchadnezzar used in the foundations of the city of Babylon was taken from the city, as was mentioned in the Sumerian tablets that the tar was used in paving the streets and making ships and drinking utensils.