INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
is known as a masterpiece of creative genius in southwest Iran.On Monday, Amin Mahdavikia, who presides over the World Heritage site,
weirs, tunnels, canals, and a series of ancient watermills powered by human-made waterfalls
It is named after an ancient city of the same name with its history dating back to the time of Darius, the Great, the Achaemenid king.It
boasts a rich diversity of civil engineering structures and constructions, as in the diversity of its uses (urban water supply, mills,
irrigation, river transport, and defensive system).In fact, the Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System testifies to the heritage and the
synthesis of earlier Elamite and Mesopotamian know-how; it was probably influenced by the Petra dam and tunnel and by Roman civil
that made possible the construction of a new town and the irrigation of a vast plain, at the time semi-desert.UNESCO says that the Shushtar
Historical Hydraulic System demonstrates outstanding universal value as in its present form, it dates from the 3rd century CE, probably on
older bases from the 5th century BC
It is complete, with numerous functions and large-scale, making it exceptional.AFM
