Amazing - I had no idea that anyone was making ice in the desert in BCE times. The wikipedia article seems to indicate that they did a lot of storing of ice in the Yakhchal structures - but it is confusing as to how they made it. It seems like they either gathered the ice from the mountains, or made it in outdoor shaded “ice pools” that were situated next to the Yakhchal. Surely the ice required winter desert temps to form? Otherwise how would the thermal mass of the ground ever get cool enough to allow ice to form, even with the magic of physics? The permanent shading helps, but year round-ice making surely wasn’t a thing, was it?
I see people cross-posting but I don’t know how they are doing it. All I see for posting options on the lemmy interface is a single community I can select.
Rib vortices forming under a breaking wave (lemmy.world)
Ancient Iran had air conditioning (lemmy.world)
How to crosspost?
I see people cross-posting but I don’t know how they are doing it. All I see for posting options on the lemmy interface is a single community I can select.