Petra served as the capital of the Nabataean people for hundreds of years before the Romans annexed the kingdom around A.D. 106. The ancient trade center once housed tens of thousands of people.

The aerial view of the Iron Age and Nabataean site of Khirbet Al Mudayna (Photo courtesy of Khirbet Al Mudayna Project) AMMAN — Mughur Sabik and Mudayna Thamad are located in the close proximity, just ...

Both are surrounded by farmland, reservoirs, water installations and architectural structures with building blocks tooled in the Nabataean style. These two large settlements along with smaller ...

Once an important trading hub for the Nabataean people, Hegra has become the focus for a groundbreaking project bridging science and art to bring us face to face with a Nabataean woman for the ...

The corpus of surviving Nabataean inscriptions consists of thousands of graffiti written on rock faces and bedrock from Arabia, Jordan, Syria and Egypt, while a few such inscriptions are known from ...

The Nabataean tribes who lived in north-western Hijaz connected with their relatives who were in southern Jordan forming a kingdom. This kingdom distinguished itself through material goods and ...

Inhabited since prehistoric times, this Nabataean caravan-city, situated between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea, was an important crossroads between Arabia, Egypt and Syria-Phoenicia. Petra is ...

Archaeological signatures of industrial operations are present over long periods of time at two Nabataean pottery workshops in Jordan: az-Zurraba (Petra) and Ayla (Aqaba). "Az-Zurraba, the longest ...