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‘I can’t survive in a house’: Petra’s Bedouin resist moves to evict them from ancient cave homes

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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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  • tinycarnivoroussheep@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But the shareholders

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  • Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I had no idea people lived in Petra. I thought it was just a ruin

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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