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The colonnaded street of Petra (Jordan) marked the centre of the ancient city. A double row of columns lined the 6m-wide carriageway, and covered porticoes gave access to commercial shops on its south side. At the end of the colonnaded street...

This is a pottery lamp. Nabataean Period, 100 BCE to 500 CE. From modern-day Wadi Musa, Jordan Hashemite Kingdom. (The Jordan Museum, Amman, Jordan).

The garden and pool complex in Petra (Jordan) is an ornamental Nabataean garden situated on an artificial terrace west of the Great Temple and overlooking the main colonnaded street. It includes a large swimming pool, an island pavilion...

Nabataean tomb at Hegra, photograph by the Royal Commission of AlUla, Saudi Arabia. A Nabataean tomb at the magnificent site of Hegra, AlUla, Saudi Arabia. Hegra was a massive site settled during the Nabatean and Roman times. A UNESCO World...

One of the capitals of the 120 columns on the Lower Temenos of the Great Temple of Petra (Jordan). They were all decorated with heads of Asian elephants and are dated to the 1st century BCE or early 1st century CE.

The upper level of the Treasury (Al-Khazneh) of Petra (Jordan) has a circular temple structure (tholos) with a conical roof between recessed Corinthian colonnades and two projecting pavilions capped by half pediments.

Silver tetradrachm from Naxos, Sicily, c. 460 BCE. O: Head of Dionysos. R: Ithyphallic Silenos holding a cantharus.

Ruins of Nabatean city Avdat, in modern-day Israel.

Frontal view of the Great Temple, a grand monumental complex that lies south of the colonnaded street at Petra (Jordan). The Great Temple is a rectangular complex with a Lower and an Upper Temenos. The Lower Temenos (sacred courtyard) was...

The lower level of the Treasury (Al-Khazneh) of Petra (Jordan) consists of a four-columned, pedimented portico flanked by shallow recesses and two sides columns. The reliefs on the lower level are 5 meters high and depict the Dioscuri, the...