For as long as we can remember,
seeking favors of protection,
our kind has buried innocent

people alive: to protect borders.
To project strength. To prevent chaos.
To pray that the gods will not devour

us with their wrath. To honor the dead
and to raise new life from the hidden
womb of the ground. Found in the town of

Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, more than five thou
sand years ago, stacked atop each other,
entwined with fragments of grindstones, the

two women were left to rot in
a sacrifice, their throats, and ankles
were tied so that they eventually

strangled themselves due to the place
of their legs. The location was set
with the sunrise at the summer sol

stice and sunset at the winter sol
stice, there is always the idea that
somebody is dying and that the crops

will grow. The Inca believed that too.
In the Nuseirat refugee camp
at al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital

in Deir el-Balah, a father and
his only surviving daughter, search
throughout the remains and the rubble.