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Re:The Diolkos: an ancient Greek paved trackway enabling boa... by eternalban on Monday August 01, 2016 @08:21AM (#12201790)
Ancient Perisans had a few mega projects as well. Persepolis is fairly well known, the Qanat water system [1] that conveyed water from the Alborz mountain range [2] to nearly the edge of Persian Gult is a bit better known. But the first attempt at a Suez Canal [3] is even news to most Iranians.

[1]: http://patentpending.blogs.com/patent_pending_blog/2005/02/a...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alborz

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_of_the_Pharaohs

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