The Nabateans were Arabs – quick-witted nomads with an intimate knowledge of the desert. They had discovered that bitumen floated up from the bottom of the Dead Sea in sticky rafts. Bitumen is a ...

An ancient civilization of traders called the Nabateans carved this monument and others into the desert more than 2,000 years ago. When he was a boy growing up in Wadi Musa, a town in southern ...

The temple's link to the Nabateans was confirmed by the discovery of two Roman marble altars that suggest the temple was built during a time when the Nabateans were living under the Roman Empire's ...

“I’ve been slightly obsessed with the Nabateans for 30 years,” English historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes says. “I knew ...

These skeletons are thought to be Nabateans, the ancient civilization that once thrived in Petra. Researchers are examining the remains and the artifacts found within the tomb to understand more ...

Known as the “Rose City” for the warm pink blush of the sandstone cliffs it is carved out of, Petra was built by the enigmatic Nabateans. Little is known about the nomadic merchant folk ...

Petra, the world-famous ancient settlement carved into the sandstone slabs of Jordan’s Ma’an Governorate, is thought to have been constructed by the Nabateans between the 7th and 4th century B ...

The ancient Nabateans built parts of their capital city, Petra, right into the rock faces of cliffs in southwestern Jordan. The work on the towering statue symbol of Rio de Janeiro on Cristo Redentor ...