Carved from rock in modern-day Jordan, Petra prospered for centuries under Nabataean and Roman rule. This dazzling settlement ...

The Nabataeans are a civilisation shrouded in mystery. The ancient inhabitants of northern Arabia and the southern Levant are ...

Deep within Jordan’s desolate desert canyons ... but to stock up with that most precious resource that the Nabataeans could supply: freshwater. Many of Petra’s incredible monuments were ...

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 ...

“This has led to the narrative that Petra was abandoned after the Nabataeans,” explains archaeologist ... American Center of Oriental Research in Jordan, excavated three churches dating ...

Before I married, I had traveled the world and seen many treasures—but none like Petra, which was and remains for me a mesmerizing window onto our past, with lessons for our future. A city ...