Photos of Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System


In the water mills and water falls, we can see a perfect model of haltering to run mills.The Band-e Kaisar (“Caesar’s dam”), an approximately 500-metre (1,600 ft) long Roman weir across the Karun, was the key structure of the complex which, along with the Mizan Dam (Band-e Mizan), retained and diverted river water into the irrigation canals in the area.