The passageways underneath historic Abarkuh are carved out of solid rock, and would have been cooled by water flowing through channels out of the heat of the day. Source: IRNA.

Ancient Underground City of Water Found Beneath Iran’s Abarkuh

Researchers investigating under a collection of five historic houses in the city of Abarkuh in Iran’s Yazd province have found something long suspected. An underground city stretches out below the modern one, dating back to the Qajar era. Abarkuh’s governor, Hossein Hatami, announced the discovery in an interview. The existence of such a city had