The majority of archaeological remains in Petra are tombs, Al-Salameen says. The Nabataeans must have paid a lot of attention to the afterlife, he says. “They looked at their life as a short ...

Though they occupied various areas of southern Jordan, Arabia, and the Naqab (or Negev) Desert, the Nabataeans made Petra, surrounded by sandstone mountains and cliffs, their capital city.

Photograph by Art Archive Much later, a new wave of settlers arrived, whose vast wealth would turn Petra into the Rose City. These were the Nabataeans, descended, according to Jewish-Roman writer ...

While the Nabataeans ruled their empire from the stunning city of Petra in Jordan, they made Hegra (the modern Mada'in Saleh) in Al Ula their second capital. Now, archaeologists are planning to ...