NABATEAN RELIGION. The scholarly consensus is that the Nabateans, whose kingdom flourished from about 400 BCE to 106 CE and whose capital was Petra in Jordan, were in part the descendants of the earlier inhabitants of southern Jordan, though apparently...

The Nabataeans, Arabic (الأنباط) Al-Anbaat, were an ancient trading people of southern Jordan, Canaan and the northern part of Arabia- whose oasis settlements in the time of Josephus gave the name of Nabatene to the borderland between Syria and...

The Nabataeans, to historical sources, are a group of paternal homes that arrived from the Arabian peninsula to the country of Edom -- in the southern Jordanian Kingdom. Although the ethnic origin of the Nabataeans is known, it is not known when exactly...

Petra and the Nabataeans: A Bibliography. By GREGORY A. CRAWFORD. ATLA Bibliography Series, vol. 49. Lanham, Md.: THE SCARECROW PRESS, 2003. Pp. xxii + 275. $65. The forty-ninth publication of this bibliographic series captures the extraordinary wealth of Petra and Nabataean research....

Ten-year-old cancer patient Fadi Haddad received an unexpected guest Thursday — first lady Laura Bush, who was visiting Jordan to launch a U.S.-funded breast cancer screening center."I really loved Mrs. Bush. She was sweet and warm," said the boy, shortly after the first lady chatted...

Archaeologists called Tuesday for urgent steps to safeguard Petra, the ancient rose-red rock city recently picked as one of the new seven wonders of the world, saying an increase in visitors could damage it unless protective measures were taken."Choosing Petra as a world wonder has...