IRTSNirtsn.com — what Iran has made, and the engineering underneath it

A tunnel, a knot, a vault, a tiled field, a walled plan — and the water that runs under all of them.

Index — six sections, twenty-four entries

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Corrections to an entry are the most useful letters we get — particularly on terminology, regional attribution and construction detail. Say which entry, and where it is wrong.

Photographs and measured drawings are credited under each figure. If a credit is wrong, tell us which figure and which page.