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 1 month 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 1 month ago
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 month 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.
tinycarnivoroussheep@midwest.social 1 month 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.
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 1 month ago
But the shareholders