INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
chamber in the central Iranian town.The subterranean settlement was found last November after cultural heritage experts followed traces they
had previously discovered within some small stone rooms in a historical core of the town, a local tourism official said on Sunday.This
cistern is in the form of a hand-carved chamber situated at a depth lower than a water channel, the official explained.Locally named an
Ab-Anbar, such underground reservoirs are part of the iconic qanat systems, which rely on snow-fed streams flowing down from surrounding
For thousands of years, qanat systems have supplied water to agricultural and permanent settlements in arid regions of Iran, tapping
alluvial aquifers at the heads of valleys and conducting the water along underground tunnels by gravity, often over many kilometers.The
Qanats, according to UNESCO, provide exceptional testimony to cultural traditions and civilizations in desert areas with an arid climate.AM
