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Tower of bable?
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Originally posted by Sparten

Tower of bable?
Unfortunately it was destroyed some thousands years ago.
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Good one Sparten!tongue
 
My pick is that the its Iran's first nuclear reactor!
 
Actually I have no clue.
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Some old silo?
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Fire temple. You know, get to the top and light a fire.
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Cyrus I was being ironic. I showed it to a co-worker. He thought it looked like................ well lets say not something you can say in polite comapany.LOL
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Some old silo?
Good guess but incorrect!
 
another pic:
 
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A fort?
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Water storage reservoir.
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A granary, in Iran no doubt.
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Water storage reservoir.
Partly correct, it is in fact a Yakhchal
 
In 400 BC Iran, Persian engineers had already mastered the technique of storing ice in the middle of summer in the desert. The ice was brought in during the winters from nearby mountains in bulk amounts, and stored in a specially designed, naturally cooled refrigerator, called a yakhchal (meaning ice pit).
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Interesting. How deep are they? To bedrock? Seems to me it'd be most efficient to dig a big whole and use the soil as insulation (on top of the thick brick walls) instead of building on the height.
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I don't know exactly how it works but there are also two other things other than the domed structure: a large Pool (no.2) which is known as Yakh-band (Freezer) and three thick walls (no.3) which are called Saye-andaz (Overshadower)

I think ices are stored in a funnel-shaped pit inside the domed structure that is nearly 8 meter in depth.

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Well, for 400 BC it's stood up pretty well. I thought that it was one of those tombs from great zimbabwe at first. Xenophon described some structures like this near Armenia- could these have been "Yakchal"s?
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The technique dates back to the 400 BC, that building is not so old, I think it has been built some hundreds years ago.
 
Xenophon described some structures like this near Armenia- could these have been "Yakchal"s?
How did he describe them?
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