Petra: Did you mean...?

Although 30,000 archaeological sites have been identified in the AlUla area of Saudi Arabia, only 8 are currently open to visitors: Jabal Ikmah, which has hundreds of inscriptions; Hegra, a massive site settled during the Nabatean and Roman...

I was recently invited to an archaeological symposium at the site of AlUla in Saudi Arabia. I had known about AlUla since 2018 and seen photographs of the amazing Nabatean tombs from there. A conference was held at AlUla in 2023, but I was...

The Roman Levant around 200 CE, during the height of imperial consolidation under the Severan dynasty (193 - 235 CE), formed one of the empire’s most dynamic and interconnected frontier regions. Administratively divided into the provinces...

Map of the Nabatean Kingdom at its greatest extent, c. 85 BCE.

The Nabatean Kingdom was a powerful political entity which flourished in the region of modern-day Jordan between the 4th century BCE and c. 106 CE and is best known today for the ruins of its capital city of Petra. Although it is clear that...

This video discusses the civilizations of Ancient Persia and the Arabian Peninsula. In this episode, the grand residences at Persepolis and the imperial palaces of Darius are toured. The second half of the video discusses the Arabian...

The Museum of Ancient Eleutherna is an on-site archaeological museum on the island of Crete. It houses artefacts found in the nearby archaeological site of Eleutherna and the necropolis of Orthi Petra.

The Tomb of the Lion of Kuza (Qasr al-Farid) is a 1st-century CE Nabatean unfinished tomb carved into a single huge rock in Hegra (Madain Saleh) in Saudi Arabia, the Kingdom of Nabatea's second capital after Petra. Qasr al-Farid is isolated...

A rare example of Neolithic daggers made by pressure knapping, found in a group burial Ba'ja, north of Petra, Jordan, 7500-7000 BCE. The Jordan Museum, Amman.

Inscribed stone boundary marker from Chalkidiki, c.350 to 300 BCE. Archaeological Museum of Thessalonika. It is an example of ancient Greek boundary markers, known as horoi, and it contains an official declaration regarding the new Macedonian...