Petra flourished as spice routes developed that linked India, Persia, and Arabia with the Mediterranean, Egypt, and Phoenicia. Establishing a monopoly on caravan traffic, the Nabataean capital ...

Inhabited since prehistoric times, this Nabataean caravan-city, situated between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea, was an important crossroads between Arabia, Egypt and Syria-Phoenicia. Petra is ...

Egypt, and the Mediterranean. This prosperity made them a formidable power in the region, drawing the attention and envy of neighbouring empires. Petra's earliest recorded historical mention dates ...

In fact, on a recent two-week trip through Egypt and Jordan ... museums in Cairo or hiking up to see the stunning monastery at Petra, these pants kept me sweat-free and looking my best.

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