The 3,000-Year-Old Secret of Persian Qanats

The printing press changed everything, but an invention 1,000 years earlier transformed civilization even

more. Around 800 BC, Persians built Qanats. Underground aqueducts moving water through deserts

using only gravity. More sustainable than Roman aqueducts, these still provide water after 3,000

years without any electricity. The Persians understood that true innovation means working with

nature, a philosophy we are only rediscovering. Your phone lasts five years.

This infrastructure outlasted empires. Subscribe for more overlooked history.