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Ancient fortress and largest adobe building in the world, Iran
The Arg-e Bam, located in the city of Bam, Kerman province of southeastern Iran, is the largest adobe building in the world. The entire building was a large fortress containing the citadel, but because the citadel dominates the ruins, the entire fortress is now named Bam Citadel. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: Arg-e BamA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Targeting BAM for Novel Therapeutics against Pathogenic Gram-Negative BacteriaInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Arg-i BamThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Source fault structure of the 2003 Bam earthquake, southeastern Iran, inferred from the aftershock distribution and its relation to the heavily damaged area: Existence of the Arg‐e‐Bam fault proposedCited 23 times
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Source fault structure of the 2003 Bam earthquake, southeastern Iran, inferred from the aftershock distribution and its relation to the heavily damaged area: Existence of the Arg‐e‐Bam fault proposed
Performance of the Earthen Arg‐e‐Bam (Bam Citadel) during the 2003 Bam, Iran, Earthquake
Predicting Probabilistic-Based Strong Ground Motion Time Series for Citadel of Arg-E-Bam (South-East of Iran)
Arg‐e‐Bam (Bam Citadel) and Its History
Structural and Physical Characteristics of the Adobe Bricks Used at the World Heritage Site of Arg-e Bam
Lustre Production in Kerman; Typology and Elemental Analysis of Lustre Wares of Exhibition and Pottery Bank of Arg-e Bam
The sense and boundaries of authenticity: the case of Arg-e Bam (Iran)
EL VALOR DE RESTITUCIÓN DE LA MAQUETA. UNA MAQUETA DE BARRO PARA RECONSTRUIR Arg-e-Bam
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Arg-i BamʻAbd al Riz̤ā Sālār Bihzādī · 1997
The world's most amazing castlesAnn Weil · 2011
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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