Nabatean culture

Connected Sites: 7

Definition
The Nabataeans were ancient peoples of southern Jordan, Canaan and the northern part of Arabia, whose oasis settlements in the time of Josephus (AD 37 - c. 100), gave the name of Nabatene to the borderland between Syria and Arabia, from the Euphrates to the Red Sea. Their loosely-controlled trading network, which centered on strings of oases that they controlled, where agriculture was intensively practiced in limited areas, and on the routes that linked them, had no securely defined boundaries in the surrounding desert.

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Connected Sites

  • Incense Route of the Negev
    Incense Route of the Negev
    Israel
    Inscribed: 2005
    2.92
    81
    7
    remains of Nabatean desert settlements on a trade route
  • Umm Al-Jimāl
    Umm Al-Jimāl
    Jordan
    Inscribed: 2024
    2.85
    30
    4
    "The extent of these earliest Nabataean and Roman settlements cannot be confirmed as the village and the town were destroyed in the 3rd century CE, and the building material was used in later constructions." (AB ev)
  • Hegra
    Hegra
    Saudi Arabia
    Inscribed: 2008
    3.89
    53
    9
    largest remaining Nabatean site south of Petra, "complementary, giving a fuller picture of Nabataean civilisation than Petra itself" (AB ev)
  • Bosra
    Bosra
    Syria
    Inscribed: 1980
    3.06
    48
    6
    "was a major Nabataean city in the 1st century CE, but was profoundly altered by the Roman and then Byzantine presence. The Nabataean vestiges are few in number,.." (AB ev Al Hijr)
  • Wadi Rum
    Wadi Rum
    Jordan
    Inscribed: 2011
    3.97
    228
    8
    Wadi Rum became a Nabataean outpost on the route between Al-Higr (Meda'in Saleh) in Saudi Arabia and Petra. (AB ev)
  • Petra
    Petra
    Jordan
    Inscribed: 1985
    4.61
    289
    21
    "indisputably the major archaeological site of Nabataean civilisation, of which it was the capital" (AB ev Al-Hijr)
  • Masada
    Masada
    Israel
    Inscribed: 2001
    3.77
    194
    11
    Nabatean pottery was found, probably due to Nabatean involvement in the siege over Masada.