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Storing Ice In The Desert In 400 BCE?
DIR By: guest55
Date: September 21, 2021, 4:23 pm
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Storing Ice In The Desert In 400 BCE?
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> How did the ancient inhabitants of the hot Iranian desert keep
themselves cool during the intensely hot summers where even
being in the shade is very unpleasant?
> Well, besides the windcatchers they had in their homes of
course, since we spoke about them a while ago.
> Think about being in the middle of a hot dry desert, it would
be a blessing to be able to drink cold beverages and eat ice
cream in the middle of summer to cool off, or to keep your meat,
dairy, fruits and other foods fresh for longer periods of time
by cooling them.
> But I am hearing you asking yourselves.. ice?? how on earth
would they be able to provide ice in the middle of a hot and dry
desert?
> The answer to that is simple yet innovative; build a Yakhchal.
>
> We don’t know for certain where the first ice houses were
built on the planet, and we aren’t sure about when the first
yakhchal was built either but we do know that around 400 BCE the
Persian engineers were already mastering the art of storing ice
in the middle of the desert, it was already a widespread
phenomenon around this time.
> This shows that the actual invention of the Yakhchal happened
much earlier as you don’t master something by doing it for a
short amount of time, but it’s unfortunately unclear for how
long.
> The practice of storing ice itself was already long
established by the time of 400 BCE, we know for a fact that the
Mongols were already storing ice for quite some time, although
again it’s unclear for how long, but there are accounts of them
doing it before 400 BCE.
> Ice was mentioned in older texts in Iran from before 400 BCE,
but there was no mention of how it was produced, which doesn’t
allow scholars to interpret that as yakhchals already being used
for very long before 400 BCE, although it is of course
hypothesized as I said earlier, you don’t master something by
doing it for a short amount of time.
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Yakhchāl of Kheshti, Iran
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> Yakhchāl (Persian:
یخچال‎ "ice pit"; yakh
meaning "ice" and chāl meaning "pit") is an ancient type of
ice house that functions as an evaporative cooler. Above ground,
the structure had a domed shape, but had a subterranean storage
space. It was often used to store ice, but sometimes was used to
store food as well. The subterranean space coupled with the
thick heat-resistant construction material insulated the storage
space year round. These structures were mainly built and used in
Persia. Many that were built hundreds of years ago remain
standing.[1]
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Ancient peoples were obviously often far superior to modern
peoples....
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