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 discovered ancient altars and inscribed marble slabs submerged along the Italian coast near Naples. The finds are likely the remains of a 2,000-year-old temple built by immigrants ...

(MENAFN- Jordan Times) 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 ...

The camel-mounted warriors of Nabataea were so skilled that they brutally slayed nearly 4,600 Greek soldiers during a single battle in 312 B.C. The Nabataean merchants held a monopoly on Silk Road ...

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“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 ...

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 ...

Jane Taylor has many accomplishments, but in Jordan especially, her name is inextricably linked to Petra, because of her unsurpassed photographs of the site. Her latest book, “Petra and the Lost ...

Ad Deir, the Monastery at Petra, was built to align with the sun's movements David Bjorgen, Wikimedia Commons Spanish and Italian scientists studying the lost city of Petra believe that it and other ...

Exactly 200 years ago this month, the ancient city of Petra, Jordan, was rediscovered by Swiss explorer Jean Louis Burckhardt. Exactly 200 years ago this month, 27-year-old Swiss explorer Jean Louis ...