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hithre 3 hours ago [-]
Very strange article.
No word of the slavery that maintains the underground channel
A perfect example of where we are going if we consume non renewable resources. And yet the article isn’t cheap in praising their awareness
Repeating many times the same Roman perception.
walthamstow 6 hours ago [-]
Baader Meinhof alert. I had never heard of this civilisation, and their foggara water system, until I listened to the In Our Time episode a couple of days ago, and now here they are on HN.
internet_points 5 hours ago [-]
> Today it is a ruin, but one that remains unmistakably alive.
wat? why is it still alive? the paragraph just ended like that, no further explanation? I get the feeling I should not trust these words. (Looking at the pre-2023 articles by the same writer, they are in a very different writing style. Sigh.)
That "ABOVE: aerial view of fortified structure of Sharba" picture though is amazing. Like it was swallowed by the sand, or it's an outgrowth, a welt being covered by a skin of sand.
No word of the slavery that maintains the underground channel
A perfect example of where we are going if we consume non renewable resources. And yet the article isn’t cheap in praising their awareness
Repeating many times the same Roman perception.
wat? why is it still alive? the paragraph just ended like that, no further explanation? I get the feeling I should not trust these words. (Looking at the pre-2023 articles by the same writer, they are in a very different writing style. Sigh.)
That "ABOVE: aerial view of fortified structure of Sharba" picture though is amazing. Like it was swallowed by the sand, or it's an outgrowth, a welt being covered by a skin of sand.
And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat (foggaras) is intriguing.
modern implementation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Man-Made_River
"According to the project's website, it is the largest underground network of pipes (2,820 kilometres (1,750 mi))[3] and aqueducts in the world."