Muqannis sending a bucket down inside one of the Qanat shaft wells to evacuate the excavated materials. A Qanat consists of a series of vertical shafts in sloping ground, interconnected at the bottom by a horizontal tunnel. The first shaft (mother well) is sunk usually into an alluvial fan, to a level below the groundwater table. Shafts are sunk at…Lire la suite
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