I had no idea people lived in Petra. I thought it was just a ruin
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DragonTypeWyvern @midwest.social - 3mon
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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tinycarnivoroussheep @midwest.social - 2mon
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.
throws_lemy in archaeology
‘I can’t survive in a house’: Petra’s Bedouin resist moves to evict them from ancient cave homes
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/20/petra-bedouin-evict-ancient-cave-homesBut the shareholders (tourists?)
I had no idea people lived in Petra. I thought it was just a ruin
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.
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.