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1st millennium BCE onward

Qanats

1st millennium BCE onward · Iran and wider arid regions

Documentary view of Qanats. — This is a photo of a monument in Iran identified by the IDTavasoli mohsen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Source record

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