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 ...

“Forgery and tax fraud carried severe penalties under Roman law, including hard labor or even capital punishment,” Dolganov explained.

The ancient trade center once housed tens of thousands of people. But the city’s population ... unexcavated and documents describing the Nabataeans are scarce. “The Nabataeans didn’t really ...

By the late fourth century BCE, the Nabataeans, a tribe most likely ... forensics and paleopathology (the study of disease in ancient people) to reconstruct the face of the person who died and ...

The Nabataeans were desert-dwelling nomads turned master merchants, who controlled the incense and spice trade routes through these ancient lands ... of these mysterious people and their world ...

Today, Petra’s ancient water system reminds us of the Nabataeans' ingenuity and determination. As scientists continue to study the remnants of Petra's infrastructure, they gain new insights into ...