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.

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 ...

The Nabataeans, he explains, were a wave of Bedouins who swept out of the Arabian Desert about 300 B.C. At first they lived by plunder, with a sideline of piracy on the Red Sea; ...

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, an enigmatic ancient tribe mentioned numerous times in the bible in various forms, controlled trade routes along most of the middle east Incense Road.

Things drastically changed for the Nabataeans and Petra around AD 106 when Romans peacefully took control of Petra (the capital of the kingdom) and all of the Nabataen people. ...

About 2,000 years ago, the powerful ancient kingdom of the Nabataeans hand-carved a city into the sandstone cliffs of Petra, Jordan. At its center: an imposing, 12-column structure that has since ...

Built by the Nabataeans, the ancient temple was submerged beneath the sea near the town of Pozzuoli. Published on October 28, 2024. By Abby Montanez. Abby Montanez ...