🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Paskeh Band Ancient Dam – Hormozgan (Band-e Paskeh)
Sasanian (Shapur I–II) · Sasanian Persian
180-m Sasanian gravity dam (240–380 CE) on Minab tributary — 300,000 m³ for Minab palms.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Band-e Mizan Dam – Shushtar Hydraulic Node
Achaemenid to Sasanian · Achaemenid / Sasanian (with Roman prisoners)
390-m Karun diversion weir (5th c BCE /260 CE) — head of Shushtar mills system.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Qanat Baladeh – Ferdows (Ton) Qanat System
Sasanian to Early Islamic · Sasanian / Early Islamic Khorasan
35-km double-branch Sasanian qanat (500–800 CE) — 70-m mother well, 45 L/s to Ferdows oasis.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Band-e Gargar Canal & Dam (Shushtar Darian Canal Head)
Sasanian (Shapur I–II) – UNESCO 1315 ensemble · Sasanian with Roman engineer captives
Sasanian Gargar diversion dam (210 m, 9 slots) feeding 47-km handmade canal watering Mianab plain.
🇮🇷 Iran · Temple complex
Takht-e Soleyman — Throne of Solomon and Azargoshnasb Fire Temple
Sasanian Empire 224–651 CE (peak 5th–7th century) → Ilkhanid 13th century reuse · Sasanian Zoroastrian → Ilkhanid Mongol Islamic palace phase
Sasanian Great Fire temple on a 120 m artesian lake — shahs' coronation sanctuary, later Ilkhanid palace.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Band-e Ashura — Shushtar Gargar Outflow Regulator (Ashura Weir)
Sasanian to Safavid re-use (260 CE Sasanian–1650 Safavid regulation) · Sasanian
Outflow regulator weir (8 m high, 95 m crest) on Gargar Canal 2.1 km downstream of Band-e Gargar–Darian Canal head (already in DB as band-e-gargar-canal) at 45 m elevation.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Band-e Gar and Dariun Aqueduct Extension (Greater Shushtar)
Sassanian (Shapur I) on Achaemenid · Sassanian Persian with Roman POW labour
Northern Shushtar (65 m, 32°03′N 48°51′E 32.05,48.85) hydraulic extension of UNESCO 1315 Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System (1315): Band-e Gar (Gar Dam) and Dariun Great Weir interconnect canal…
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Band-e Gargar Secondary Canal (Shushtar Gargar Diversion Canal)
Sasanian (Shapur I post-Edessa 260) · Sasanian with Roman prisoner engineers
Gargar canal: 12-km Sasanian 260 CE cliff canal diverting Karun through Shushtar mills, UNESCO 1315.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Qanat-e Zarch North Extension (Yazd Zarch Qanat Northern Arm)
Achaemenid core 500 BCE to Sasanian 450 CE (extension) to present · Yazdi Zarch piedmont oasis (Kavir piedmont)
North Zarch extension 8.2 km with 88 shafts mother 34 m, 6 badgir towers 18 L/s: Sasanian 450 CE graft onto 500 BCE core.
🇮🇷 Iran · Hydraulic works
Tang-e Boraq Aqueduct (Boraq Gorge Cliff Aqueduct)
Sasanian to Kakuyid (450 CE, repaired 1050 CE) · Sasanian Zagros (Eqlid terrace farmers)
Tang-e Boraq: 420-m Sasanian 450 CE cliff aqueduct in 85-m Zagros gorge, Eqlid 30.55N 52.32E.