| There are few locations in Egypt where evidence of Ancient Egyptian, Semitic and Nabataean culture overlap. |
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| Many of the cave-like Nabataean dwellings are off the main tourist path, and house Bedouin families, or herds of sheep. |
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| But if a settlement was needed at just that point, the Nabataean attitude was that water could be caught or brought. |
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| There he studied monuments and inscriptions left by the ancient Nabataean civilization. |
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| However, the ancient Nabataean citadel can be seen without the payment of a big fee. |
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| Survival in this harsh environment was possible due to a comprehensive hydraulic system, originally Nabataean. |
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| The Arabic alphabet is derived from Nabataean and has many calligraphy styles, which vary according to the era and geographic region. |
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| It was the capital of the Nabataean Kingdom from the 4th century BC until it lost its commercial importance at the beginning of the 2nd century AD due to the development of sea routes and the city of Palmyra to the north. |
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| We tug our hammer-headed mules along the tourist trails of Petra, the fabled Nabataean capital cut from rock the color of living muscle. |
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| This event might have prompted the annexation of the Nabataean kingdom, but the manner and the formal reasons for the annexation are unclear. |
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| But the Nabataean Arab people, the origin of this unique architecture, which will grow the city two centuries later, based on its strategic location. |
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| As they are now the most important surviving examples of Nabataean art, they rank among Petra's most remarkable treasures and are likely to become a major tourist attraction, Rickerby said. |
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| Excavations and clearance work inside the castle uncovered a total of 146 Greek inscriptions as well as two others in Nabataean and one in Safaitic, all engraved on regularly cut basalt stones. |
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| Early in his reign, he annexed the Nabataean Kingdom, creating the province of Arabia Petraea. |
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| The site is also rich in epigraphic material including Nabataean, Greek, Latin and Safaitic inscriptions, many of which were engraved on tombstones from neighbouring cemeteries and later incorporated into new buildings. |
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| Some of these inscriptions are bilingual, written in Nabataean and Greek. |
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| Though Roman in design, it is Nabataean in the style of its execution, and may have been carved from the rock in the time of Aretas IV But there are no clues as to what was performed here. |
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| The Romans blamed their Nabataean guide and executed him for treachery. |
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