House glaciers in Iran: the inverse images of the refrigerator

Surprisingly, the idea of ​​storing perishables person visited a long time. For example, in what is now Iran's first home-glaciers appeared in the seventeenth century BC.

In ancient times, the ice was a great value, which can not reproduce in the summer.





In Europe, the ice brought from Scandinavia, Russia is stored in more northerly than Moscow, places, and Hindus restocking in the Himalayas. Despite this long history of the homes of glaciers in Iran, half a century ago, they used very successfully continued.



The main form of glaciers - ovoid.





But the most important difference from the western glaciers is that the Iranians themselves have adapted to create ice.







Taking into account the local climate, the nights are frost, the water in the midst of the desert is incredibly difficult to find, the more ice.









Local residents have created special channels residing in the shade.



Every night the water froze, and before the sun went all the collected ice in the glacier.







In total, Iran kept more than one hundred homes glaciers.