‘I can’t survive in a house’: Petra’s Bedouin resist moves to evict them from ancient cave homes (www.theguardian.com)
from throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to archaeology@mander.xyz on 20 Sep 11:13
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ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com on 20 Sep 12:34 next collapse

But the shareholders (tourists?)

Paradachshund@lemmy.today on 20 Sep 15:09 next collapse

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

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social on 21 Sep 19:56 next collapse

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 on 04 Oct 16:36 collapse

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.