Professor Ali Obeid Shilgam, the Director General of the Department of Archaeological Research in Iraq, announced the findings during archaeological survey work in the Diyala region, where three qanat ...

Throughout the arid regions of Iran, agricultural and permanent settlements are supported by the ancient qanat system of tapping alluvial aquifers at the heads of valleys and conducting the water ...

Qanats or man-carved subterranean aqueducts are of very high importance for the nation as they supported agricultural and permanent settlements in arid and semi-arid regions of the Iranian plateau.

The project also aims at promoting water and qanat tourism as one of the main tourism branches in the region as well as transferring the knowledge of building qanats to the next generations, CHTN ...

Part 1: The life and near death of the qanat system. Part 2: Qanats -- natural harmony. [ personal history ] Anthropologists and archeologists believe qanats were invented in Iran just over four ...

Over the centuries, qanats have served as the main supplier of fresh water in arid regions of Iran, as provided the opportunity for people to live in extremely dry zones (even in deserts), and thus ...