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.CAIS ARCHAEOLOGICAL & CULTURAL NEWS OF IRAN© |
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Achaemenid Waterfalls Proposed for Registration on UNESCO World Heritage List
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08 March 2006 |
LONDON,
(CAIS) -- The Shushtar Cultural Heritage and Tourism
Office (SCHTO) has presented the dossier of the man-made Shushtar waterfalls to
Iranian cultural officials in order to register the ancient water structures on
the UNESCO World Heritage List.
“The
beautiful unique scenery, the rare water engineering technology in a particular
time of history, and the vast array of cultural interactions that occurred in
the region due to the irrigation system are the reasons for the application,”
SCHTO director Mohammad-Hossein Arastuzadeh told the Persian service of CHN on
Wednesday.
Construction
of the system began during the Achaemenid dynastic era (about 550-331 BC) on one
of the Gargar River’s tributaries and then it was improved by the Sasanid
dynasty (224-651 CE).
Located
near the Ancient Elamite capital Susa in Khuzestan Prvince, the Shushtar
waterfalls are among the few ancient water structures in Iran used for
irrigating the Shushtar plain. Remnants of some of the
many watermills built on the waterfalls during the Safavid era (1501-1722) still
remain.
In October 2004, it was reported that sewage channel leakage had caused irreparable damage to the wonderful waterfalls.
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