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Looking out over an arid plain, a line of crater-like mounds stretching toward the horizon might look like the aftermath of an artillery strike. In reality, these rings of excavated earth are the surface traces of a qanat: a precisely engineered, hand-dug underground tunnel designed to deliver groundwater to desert settlements using nothing but gravity. This episode examines how these ancient water systems were constructed and maintained across vast distances without the aid of modern…
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