wadi

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The results showed the tools were likely to have been used approximately 84 thousand years ago and then abandoned on the banks of the wadis and subsequently buried over time.

From Science Daily

The desert riverbed, or wadi, had already subsided back to a trickle.

From Reuters

A series of bridges had crossed the wadi, connecting the port area with the western side of the city.

From BBC

An academic published a paper in 2022 said that repeated flooding threatened the dams built in a wadi, a usually dry riverbed, above the city and urged immediate maintenance.

From Reuters

"If a huge flood happens the result will be catastrophic for the people of the wadi and the city," the paper said.

From Reuters