Archaeologists have much more to learn about a city that once thrummed with life. Many of the buildings that housed people ...

Discover the engineering genius behind Petra, the lost city. Learn how the Nabataeans transformed a harsh desert into a thriving metropolis with advanced w ...

AMMAN — The early adaption of an ancient heating system by the Nabataeans point to an outward-facing society, according to a Canadian archaeologist Ancient ceramic heating pipes, also known as tubuli, ...

Archaeologists have made an incredible discovery at Petra, the Nabataean capital in Jordan. They found a highly developed hydraulic system that challenges the long-held belief that advanced hydraulics ...

The story of the Nabataeans is a fascinating, and integral, part of the Petra story. At its height - in the century or so prior to and after the birth of Christ - the Nabataean empire included parts ...

AMMAN — Due to the extremely dry environment of the Hisma Desert in Southern Jordan, ancient Nabataeans used to collect water for their settlements by building huge cisterns and an aqueduct, ...

They are the ancient people who dominated trade, thrived in one of the world’s harshest environments and established a rich culture that has left behind a wealth of archaeological evidence, including ...

“A portion of the salaries paid to Roman soldiers was in salt,” Politis said, adding that balsam oil was produced at the site of Ain Judi on the shores of the Dead Sea. Inscriptions found in Yemen and ...