Ancient Iran from the air

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Authors & editors	Stronach, David [Author] Mousavi, Ali [Author] Gerster, Georg [Author]
Publisher	Verlag Philipp von Zabern
Year of publication	2012
Languages	English (main text)
Medium	Book
Edition	1
Topics	Wind & watermills > Rest of the World (not Europe) > Middle East
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Scope & content	This book provides a photographic record of the landscape and buildings of ancient archaeological sites in Iran as they appeared now in comparison to the 1930's when Erich Schmidt did an aerial survey. Chapter 6 contains images and descriptions of milling technology - windmills, watermills, wind-catchers and cisterns with wind-towers to ventilate the air and cool the water within. Chapter 1 - Earth and water: the land of Iran; Chapter 2 - Land before memory: prehistoric Iran (6000-1500BC); Chapter 3 - Builders of the ages: Elamites, Medes, Achaemenids and Parthians (1500BC-224AD); Chapter 4 - Palaces, fortresses and fire temples: archaeological sites of Sasanian (224-651AD) and later date; Chapter 5 - Bricks, tiles and domes: sites and monuments dating after 651AD; Chapter 6 - Vernacular architecture: Iran's working buildings from the air - written by Michael Harverson and Elizabeth Beazley