[Leica] IMG: Ganat Level

[Tina Manley]

According to Tom's notes, it is from 197 AD.  The whole water system is
very impressive. In Iran alone, there are an estimated 50,000 qanats,
nearly three-quarters of which are still working.  They knew what they were
doing!

Tina

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 4:48 PM, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com>
wrote:

> Amazing piece of technology ;-) Who needs laser levels and the like. How
> old is
> this one, do you have any idea?
>
> Peter
>
> On 06/06/2016 14:41, Tina Manley wrote:
> >
> > We went to a water museum in Yazd that explained all about the ganats and
> > how water use was allocated.  There was a lot of interesting information
> > and many displays but I found the ancient level used to determine the
> slope
> > of the ganats to be most fascinating:
> >
> >
> http://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Iran/G0000YmlbTddL96g/I0000aSa4vH2oM34
> >
>
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