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Petra would later become the capital city of the Nabataean Kingdom in the second century BC. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The Nabataeans invested in Petra's proximity to the incense trade routes by establishing it as a major regional trading hub, which gained them considerable revenue.
The Nabataeans were an Arab tribe who had come under significant Babylonian-Aramaean influence. [9] The first mention of the Nabataeans dates from 312/311 BC, when they were attacked at Sela or perhaps at Petra without success by Antigonus I's officer Athenaeus in the course of the Third War of the Diadochi; at that time Hieronymus of Cardia, a Seleucid officer, mentioned the Nabataeans in a ...
The Nabataean Kingdom (Nabataean Aramaic: 𐢕𐢃𐢋𐢈 Nabāṭū), also named Nabatea (/ ˌ n æ b ə ˈ t iː ə /), was a political state of the Nabataeans during classical antiquity. The Nabataean Kingdom controlled many of the trade routes of the region, amassing large wealth and drawing the envy of its neighbors.
Petra, in southern Jordan, is a love letter to human civilization from a long-lost empire.The Nabataeans, a nomadic Arabic people, began chiselling away at the natural sandstone surroundings ...
Al-Khazneh The first glimpse of Petra's Treasury (Al-Khazneh) upon exiting the Siq. Al-Khazneh (Arabic: الخزنة; IPA:, "The Treasury"), A.K.A. Khazneh el-Far'oun (treasury of the pharaoh), is one of the most elaborate rock-cut tombs in Petra, a city of the Nabatean Kingdom inhabited by the Arabs in ancient times.
Capital of the Nabataean Kingdom in around 312 BC. ... 2016–2019 Characterisation and Conservation of Paintings on Walls and Sculpture from Nabataean Petra "The ...
Petra, a hidden gem in the deserts of Jordan, is an ancient city of extraordinary beauty and historical significance. ... As the capital of the Nabatean Kingdom, Petra thrived as a center of trade ...
The Rulers of Nabataea, reigned over the Nabataean Kingdom (also rendered as Nabataea, Nabatea, or Nabathea), inhabited by the Nabateans, located in present-day Jordan, south-eastern Syria, southern Israel and north-western Saudi Arabia. The queens of the later Nabataean Kingdom figure side by side with their husbands as co-rulers on their coins.