The story of the Nabataeans is a fascinating, and integral, part of the Petra story. At its height - in the century or so prior to and after the birth of Christ - the Nabataean empire included parts ...

The Nabataeans are a civilisation shrouded in mystery. The ancient inhabitants of northern Arabia and the southern Levant are best known for their monumental tombs that are carved out of rock cliffs.

In his work, Nabataeans and History, Robert Wenning writes: “One gets the impression from the famous report of Hieronymus of Cardia about Petra and the Nabataeans that Petra in 311 B.C. was not yet ...

The Nabataeans were a distinct society of wealthy desert nomads that appeared in modern-day Jordan beginning around 400 B.C. Over the course of hundreds of years, the Nabataeans became extravagantly ...

The Nabataeans piped water in from springs outside the city and carved channels into the rock to collect rainwater. They also built dams and reservoirs to store water. Petra contains more than 600 ...

The waters of the Bay of Naples may seem a far cry from the deserts of modern Jordan and Saudi Arabia, home of the ancient Nabataeans, a Semitic-speaking people who established a powerful kingdom ...

The Hegra Archaeological Site (al-Hijr / Madā ͐ in Ṣāliḥ) is the first World Heritage property to be inscribed in Saudi Arabia. Formerly known as Hegra it is the largest conserved site of the ...

At the Variety Lounge presented by Film AlUla at the Red Sea Film Festival, Variety‘s Alex Ritman spoke with Bettany Hughes, the host, historian and producer of the documentary “Lost Worlds ...

Another impressive structure built by the Nabataeans, Petra’s Treasury, featured in the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, in which the building serves as the cinematic resting place ...

The Nabataeans were an ancient Arab civilization that inhabited northern Arabia and the Levant over 2,000 years ago. The ancient Jordanian city of Petra was the capital of their kingdom, ...