Recent archeological excavations at Iran's Alamut fortress have yielded food storage rooms and water reservoirs in the northwestern historical site.
Archeologists found a number of storage rooms on the west side of the fortress, which show that residents of the site made good use of their rocky habitation.
According to Head of the Alamut Research Center Hamideh Choubak, a number of stairs were also found which experts believe were used to reach the food storage.
"The site's largest water reservoir is 11.45m long, 4m wide and about 4m deep," she explained saying that the residents collected rain and snow water in big cisterns and used it during summer.
"Archeologists also discovered a number of residential rooms, water reservoirs and storage rooms in the northern part of the fortress," Choubak added.
"One of the rooms contains a stone furnace on the wall and some others have ovens on the ground," she explained.
The Alamut castle was a mountain fortress located in the central Alborz Mountain range south of the Caspian Sea, about 100 km from where the Iranian capital stands today.
The fortress was built with only one passable artificial entrance that wound its way around the cliff face, making the castle extremely difficult to conquer. Today, only the ruins of the unique structure remain.
Source: Press TV [June 24, 2010]