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Iranrud, meaning "Iran's River", refers to the idea of a canal bisecting the Iranian plateau in a north-south direction thereby connecting the Caspian Sea to the wider oceanic system. There are two proposed routes; a 950km western route beginning in Gilan Province which would turn and twist...

Dubai is home to some of the most amazing engineering projects on land reclamation with projects like the Palm Islands, the World, the Universe and others. It is known that at the beggining many investors were not convinced by the project, but today they've become part of the very same identity...

With the large number of Major and tributary rivers across the heart of Russia that flows into multiple Seas, would a larger Canal Network be a boon for the Russian Empire?

Chott el Djerid is a salt lake located in present day Tunisia. It's altitude varies between 10 meter above sea level to 25 meter below sea level. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chott_el_Djerid (Below a map of Tunisia) Chott el Djerid is the large blue colored salt lake in the middle of the...

Inspired by a recent game of Eu4, where I managed to build the Panama Canal as the Aztecs in 1767! Obviously that specific scenario is very implausible, but what's the earliest possible time the canal could have been built? The only rule is technology has to progress at the same rate as OTL.

A while ago there was a thread about an Industrial Roman Empire (surprising, last one before that was 4 years ago!) and what got me thinking was people posting links for many mechanisms that used water and wind power, mostly for grinding grain but it got me thinking what if the Roman Empire...

What if the Hotel Attraction, designed by famed architect Antoni Gaudi, was actually built on the site it was almost commissioned for in 1908? What kind of engineering challenges would its builders have faced? Would a POD before 1900 be required?

The qanat was an ancient Persian technology to collect subterranean water by building a sequence of channels starting (underground) in the mountains and sloping down into irrigated farmland. It is actually still used today in Iran. This technology spread to Armenia and Kurdistan, but as far as...