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1 Briant, P. (2011). Irrigation et drainage dans l’Antiquité, qanāts et canalisations souterraines en Iran, en Égypte et en Grèce. Persika 2. Paris: Thotm Édition. Provides critical overviews of irrigation techniques, particularly qanats, in antiquity, from Greece to Iran, touching on several regions within the Achaemenid empire.

2 Brice, W.C. (1966). South‐West Asia. London: University of London Press. A useful survey of the geography, environment, and hydrography of much of the region covered by the Achaemenid empire.

3 Goblot, H. (1979). Les qanats: une technique d’acquisition de l’eau. Paris, Hague, and New York: Mouton. A classic discussion of qanat technology in cross‐cultural perspective.

4 Herzfeld, E. (1968). The Persian Empire: Studies in Geography and Ethnography of the Ancient Near East. Edited from the Posthumous Papers by Gerold Walser. Wiesbaden: Steiner. Dated in some respects but still a very useful compendium of studies on the individual provinces of the Achaemenid empire, among many other things.

5 Rahimi‐Laridjani, F. (1988). Die Entwicklung der Bewässerungslandwirtschaft im Iran bis in sasanidisch‐frühislamische Zeit. Beiträge zur Iranistik 13. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert. A thorough review of the geography, hydrography, environment, and agriculture of all the many sub‐regions of Iran.

6 Roller, D.W. (2010). Eratosthenes' Geography. Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press. An excellent survey of the geographical data recorded in the lost work of Eratosthenes, but excerpted by later authors, principally Strabo.

7 Wilkinson, T.J. (2003). Archaeological Landscapes of the Near East. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. An excellent survey of the environment and cultural as well as natural landscapes of the Near East.