I had no idea people lived in Petra. I thought it was just a ruin
‘I can’t survive in a house’: Petra’s Bedouin resist moves to evict them from ancient cave homes
Submitted 5 weeks ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to archaeology@mander.xyz
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/20/petra-bedouin-evict-ancient-cave-homes
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Paradachshund@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
tinycarnivoroussheep@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
As someone who grew up in Dust Bowl country, if the indigenous people in the region stayed nomadic for umpteen thousand years, there’s a couple few fukken reasons for it.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
TIL the “discovery” of Petra was just western Europeans hearing about it again after the Romans, western and eastern, were building fucking churches in it and that we’re at whatever stage of capitalism it is that gentrifies fucking Petra.
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 5 weeks ago
But the shareholders