Petra: Rise of the Nabataeans

The Ancients

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🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The assumption had once been that they were nomads until the Romans came. But more recent archaeological work in modern day Jordan is dispelling this myth about the ancient Nabataeans. In this first episode in another two part podcast, Tristan was joined by Professor David Graf from the University of Miami to talk about the early history of the Nabataeans and their close links to the extraordinary ancient city of Petra. A leading expert on the history and archaeology of Petra and its people, David was excavating at the Rose City when Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was being filmed at the ancient site 30 years ago.

David, who has a particular fascination with the early history of the Nabataeans, explained how he has attempted to piece together information about the Nabataeans from various archaeological sources. From papyri fragments to inscriptions to ostraca to rare coinage. Part 2, focused around Petra's later ancient history, will be released soon!

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0:00.0	It's the ancient's on history hit.
0:05.7	I'm Tristan Hughes your host and in today's podcast we are continuing our series on ancient
0:11.3	cities.
0:12.3	It has been brilliant to see how well received our previous episodes on ancient Rome, on
0:18.2	ancient Palmyra have been.
0:20.2	They were absolutely fantastic.
0:21.9	So we're continuing the strand now.
0:24.9	In this podcast we are focusing on another incredible ancient near-Reston City.
0:29.8	The Rose City situated in modern day Jordan, Petra.
0:34.7	Now to talk through this amazing topic including what we know about the people who lived in
0:39.8	underground Petra, the Nabataians.
0:42.7	I was delighted to be joined by an ancient history legend, Professor David Graff from the
0:48.5	University of Miami.
0:50.4	David is a leading expert on Petra.
0:52.7	He has been excavating there for decades.
0:55.6	He was there at Petra when they were filming Indiana Jones and the last crusade.
1:02.4	Absolutely incredible.
1:04.1	So because this is a very special podcast we're going to be dividing it into two.
1:08.4	And in this first part we're going to be focusing on the archaeology that tells us a
1:12.7	bit more about Petra's early history and in particular about the rise of the Nabataians,
1:19.1	particularly in the Hellenistic period.
1:21.6	So we even get a little bit of the successes in there to my favourite.
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