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The Forgotten Castles of the Garamantes
- walthamstow 4mo agoBaader 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 4mo 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. And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat (foggaras) is intriguing.
- trhway 4mo ago>And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat (foggaras) is intriguing. modern implementation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Man-Made_River 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."
- hithre 4mo agoVery 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.
- RealityVoid 4mo agoInteresting this pops up on the front page now, I just listened to the "In our time" podcast episode about this civilization a couple of days ago. Baader-Meinhof strikes again!