The Qanats of Gonabad is one of the world's oldest and largest networks of underground aqueducts. Built between 700 and 500 B.C. by the Achaemenid Empire in what is now Gonabad, the province of Razavi Khorasan, Iran, the complex contains 427 wells with a total length of 33,113 metres (20,575 miles). 2] The site was first added to UNESCO's list of provisional World Heritage Sites in 2007 and was then officially registered in 2016, along with several other qanats, as
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