Historians say such houses were once widespread in western Libya. Due to Libya's ongoing civil war currently there is no government support to preserve the tradition of pit houses. ( TRTWorld )Across the world, people live in all sorts of places, in caves, homes built on water, underground, even on rubbish dumps. A civil war broke out in 2011, and now the country is ruled by two rival governments, so there's no government support to preserve Libyan culture, like the centuries-old pit houses. Source: TRT World

Source: Libya Today April 18, 2018 06:33 UTC