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The majority of Yazd’s
historical relics, which is remained, is mostly related to
the era after Sassanid. Among the city’s pre-Islam
vestiges, however, one is the petroglyph on a cave wall in
Ernan Mountain, south of Yazd. The engravings depict
spear-wielding men chasing high-horned wild goats.
Meibod’s Narin Castle, too, has in it traces of both
Islamic and pre-Islamic architecture. Among the valuable
historical grounds identified in the province are
Kasnavieh Hills (north of Yazd), Mir Jafar Hills (in the
vicinity of Bafq) and Shohaba (Fahraj Martyrs’
compound), which have been archeologically studied on a
case-to-case basis.
The city’s most outstanding infrastructure and
historical feature is its underground water canals (Qanat).
These canals are, in fact, the basis on which the
foundation of urban development has been laid in a very
logical way.
Many houses, schools, bazaars and mosques are connected to
the underground canals by gutters, grooves, rivulets and
ponds. The canals, after watering residential quarters,
continue towards north to irrigate agricultural lands.
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