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🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Ilkhanid Mongol (1300) to Safavid · Mongol–Persian hydraulic (Rashid al-Din's Jami' al-Tawarikh?), Qom Shi'a
1300 Mongol 26-m arch radius 35 m, oldest surviving arch dam (first Mongol), 294 yr before Tibi Europe.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Early Bronze to Crusader 1191 CE · Canaanite → Philistine → Phoenician → Roman
Five-period tells (Canaanite vaulted mudbrick gate — oldest arch in the world c.1850 BCE, 4 m high; Philistine emporium of titans with 15,000 sq m market; Phoenician Tyrian-purple, Greek, Roman,…
