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[–] [email protected] 116 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Inside these structures, normally, there would be rooms for > > travelers to be used freely and allow them to rest and recuperate. Some caravanserai had libraries and thus it has been assumed that these areas also acted as a cultural hotspots where ideas and beliefs could be shared or discussed. Many travelers from around the world will have stopped at these on their journey to the African trader centers.> link

That's so cool, wonder about the amazing stories that must have been told at these places!

[–] [email protected] 50 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So, you all meet in the inn deep in the vast desert... Let's go around the table and describe your characters...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Half-Jinn warrior from Cairo, equally offended by white actors in bronzer and the blue man group.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

In one of these I'm pretty sure you can learn a new dragon shout.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Sounds a lot like a mountain hut on the trails full of hikers taking a break for a bit only on a much bigger scale.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

There's a movie at that link of walking through the building, it's really cool!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Some caravanserai had libraries

I’m feeling a major drive to watch Avatar again.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Usul, welcome to Sietch Tabr

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

As written.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

And it apparently had one helluva shield wall.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Built on a natural outcrop, most are or were also likely on top of accessible aquifers.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Thank you. I couldn't figure out how in the world they managed to get mud or even mortar to build a structure like that, in such an environment. I don't know why "dig a well" was the farthest thing from my mind.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (3 children)

How does it keep from being submerged in sand? The ground around the ksar is a different shade, is that what prevents piling? Or is the area bereft of wind? Did they build the area underneath or is it naturally occurring? I have too many questions!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm imagining one poor caretaker with a leaf blower lol

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Fine. A broom blower.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

maybe what we see is just the tip

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You would build a castle in the desert on a natural aquifier too, no? There might have been an oasis long before this was built.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (3 children)

This looks like it's the size of a palm. Hard to scale

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Thanks! Already searched for more

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

I think it's because the dunes have the same shape as the bumps in wet sand on the beach

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Tilt shift does that.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This reminds me of the buried library in Avatar 🦉

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Have we checked it for Wan Shi Tong?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I'm not going in there, he knows Foggy Swamp Style!!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Same lol that's immediately what I thought of.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

Worlds oldest surviving sand castle.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Ehhhhhhh, now there's a lemming after my heart. Very nice!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Couldn't be, no one is being peaked to death

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I find this so freaky interesting! Wow!!!

Think about the stories told, how many people passed through there, how it was build, who might have hid there!

Amazing!

Also, for the ones who read the demon cycle, this is how i imagined Ruins of Anoch Sun

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I want to fill it with cheesecake and bake it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

In Algerian desert, desert bakes you!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Looks like someone left the Coliseum in the sun for too long.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I wonder if someone could get super insanely rich by building a pipeline to the middle of the desert from the ocean, digging a giant hole and building a beach resort on formerly worthless land.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You're basically describing Dubai

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Dubai is over the sea, no need for long pipes

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think you should be already super rich to build the giant pipe tho

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nah you just need to find some ~~suckers~~ ~~idiots~~ investors who want in on this innovative and brilliant idea.

Then honestly you don't even have to build the pipe

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You can only steal investor money if you're already rich and the investment is coming from the government.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

It's easy to pretend to be rich. Ferrari rentals are actually pretty cheap.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Nah, it's easy as this project would be like most mining startups - you just need a liar and a hole in the ground

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

laughs in Salton Sea

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Realistically, a project importing sea water inland would likely salt up the freshwater aquifer beneath the desert...creating more desert - elsewhere.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Fossilised sandworm

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Like some randomly generated structure you’d find in an empty area of an open world game. Has monsters in the basement and loot

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Reminds me of One of the fort in Skyrim with Bandits in basement.

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