Petra and the Lost City of the Nabataeans

This illustrated history reconstructs the Nabataeans, an Arab people who grew from nomadic traders into a kingdom whose rock-cut capital at Petra in southern Jordan became a caravan hub. Taylor traces their relations with the Hasmoneans, Herod, and Rome, their water engineering and architecture, and the annexation of the kingdom under Trajan in 106 CE. She follows the same people into the Byzantine and early Islamic periods and sets Petra among other Nabataean sites in the Negev, Sinai, and Syria. It is a popular archaeological history of a people and a city, not a site guidebook alone.

Bound in image blocked brown cloth. Black slipcase. Single volume issue of Lost Cities of the Ancient World set.