Guide to Hegra. Archaeology in the Land of the Nabataeans of Arabia

An archaeological guidebook to the awe-inspiring site of an ancient Bedouin city In the vast alluvial plains of the Saudi desert lie the ruins of a once-thriving ancient city, remarkably well preserved with more than 100 monuments and tombs along the sandstone massifs. Though they existed for many years as a number of nomadic Bedouin tribes, the ancient Nabataean people eventually established their kingdom in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia in the 1st century. They built a vast city su