How the Nabataeans Built a City Where There Was No Water
Petra is usually sold as a facade. The photograph everyone knows is the Treasury seen through the narrow slot of the Siq — rose sandstone, …
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Iram of the Pillars: The Lost City Buried Beneath the Sands of Arabia
There is a stretch of desert in southern Arabia where the dunes run for six hundred kilometres without a village, a well, or a road. The Be…