‘I can’t survive in a house’: Petra’s Bedouin resist moves to evict them from ancient cave homes - eviltoast
Plans to improve the world heritage site for tourists put its living culture at risk, say locals and campaigners
  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialEnglish
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    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.