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The historian say that Berbers began to excavate these holes to go unnoticed in the presence of their enemies.

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But the real reason, that seems more determinant, is these homes isolate from coldness in winter and from suffocating heat in summer.

And alos because of the ground is soft and easier to excavate than to build over it. So they avoid from using construction material and architects.