In a new find under five historic homes in the Iranian city of Abarkuh, archaeologists discovered an underground settlement ...

all regions where the ancient qanats systems have largely been mapped, to build their model. They wrote that their approach provided improved precision in predicting the location of qanat shafts ...

The Groundwater Accounting Platform — an increasingly popular water management tool — has released its source code with an eye to spurring collaboration.

Water is brought to the city through the ancient qanat system. Each district of the city is built on a qanat and has a communal center. In addition, the use of earth in buildings includes walls and ...