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> it's wild to see a whole underground city made by human hands thousands of years go.

Fun fact: those cities buried in hills on the plain are called "tells".

They're called "tells" because, thousands and thousands of years ago when Mesopotamia spoke Old Akkadian, they were called "tells". The concept was old then.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/t%C4%ABlum#Akkadian



And they're still called like this in Hebrew, hence Tel Aviv.




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