Stones carved with foliage which once twined around the altar of an ancient Nabatean goddess have been returned to Jordan, after an Oxford academic helped a Spanish art dealer to identify them as ...

Explorer and adventurer Alice Morrison is on the trail of a forgotten ancient civilisation, the Nabateans. In this episode she visits one of the empire's most spectacular sites known as the Treasury ...

Archaeologists have dug up the remains of two altars from a Nabatean temple, which were discovered underwater on the seabed of Pozzuoli. This region is found within southern Italy, and the ...

Even after the Romans transferred the Nabataean Kingdom into Provincia Arabia in 106 AD, Dushara, or Roman Dusares, remained an important god, the scholar underlined. Within Nabatean polytheism, the ...

Madain Saleh isn’t as well-known as Petra, but the Nabateans’ second-largest city played a crucial role in their mysterious empire. As always, our Saudia Airline flight from Riyadh to Medina started ...

Researchers have unearthed more clues about the ancient Nabatean city of Petra in Jordan. A team of North Carolina-based researchers helped unearth more clues this summer about the ancient Nabatean ...

Nabateans: A Semitic people who thrived in the Negev between the third century BCE and the seventh century CE. They accumulated great wealth by transporting spices across the desert and built six ...

The four Nabatean towns of Haluza, Mamshit, Avdat and Shivta, along with associated fortresses and agricultural landscapes in the Negev Desert, are spread along routes linking them to the ...

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