Yakhchal is the ancient evaporative cooler, the brick dome with two windtowers, located on hot desert grounds of Towers of Silence - the Zoroastrian b

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Yakhchal is the ancient evaporative cooler, the brick dome with two windtowers, located on hot desert grounds of Towers of Silence - the Zoroastrian burial site, Yazd, Iran.

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