As a major port of the Roman empire, Puteoli was connected to a vast network of commerce, bringing peoples from across the ...

AMMAN — The ancient Nabataeans were well known for their hydraulic system, water storage and irrigation in a very arid area of Petra and its hinterland. They combined the best Greco-Roman practices ...

Take a journey from the deserts of Arabia to the far corners of the Mediterranean to uncover the world of the Nabataeans, the civilisation that built Petra. Bettany Hughes at a tomb at Hegra ...

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 ...

Inhabited as early as 7000 BC, the city reached its zenith only when the Nabataeans arrived around the 4th century BC. At its peak, Petra served as the capital of the Nabataean Kingdom ...

Hughes said the Nabataeans have a rich culture that many people do not know about and that has not bene previously portrayed on screen in mainstream documentaries. “The world needs to know about ...

The Nabataeans built Petra more than 2000 years ago. Not much is known about the Nabataeans, who emerged in Arabia in the 4th century BCE. Originally nomads who spoke Arabic and later a form of ...

Stefanile, who’s also a senior research fellow with the Southern Graduate School in Naples, believes that the Nabataeans deserted the harbor after the Roman emperor Trajan took over. The ...

“The edification of the sanctuary was possible when the Nabataeans enjoyed the freedom and opportunities offered by the friendship with Rome and the independence of their motherland,” the ...

The Nabataeans also created the famous tomb carved into the desert stone in Petra, Jordan, known as “The Treasury.” Parts of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade were filmed at the historic ...