War, peace, treasure and tradition, in the tunnels and cave systems of 21st C Levant
This article was inspired by Israeli and western press characterisation of Hamas-tunnels in Gaza, as if they were novel and somehow shameful and outrageous defensive constructions, when Israel itself has plenty.
Topic:
- Noushabad
- Derinkuyu
- Petra
- Hegra
- Christina Steenkamp
- water technology
- oases
- underground cities
- tunnels
- tunnel commerce
- tunnel warfare
- cave-living
- Middle-East
- Western Asia
- Israel
- Palestine
- geomorphology
- geotechtonics
- Gaza
- Nabataeans
- underground cisterns
- Afghanistan
- Iran
- Israel-Palestine
- Syria
- Jordan
- Saudi Arabia
- Yemen
- Turkey
- Harrat-Ash-Shaam
- Arabian plate
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