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Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian          
Royal Road, was built by Alexander Iannaeus (ruled     
103-76 BCE) and restored by king Herod the Great.      
St. John Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded in this   
fortress. Columns of Herodes' palace.
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Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by...

Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian          
Royal Road, was built by Alexander Iannaeus (ruled     
103-76 BCE) and restored by king Herod the Great.      
St. John Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded in this   
fortress. Columns of Herodes' palace.
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Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by...

Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian          
Royal Road, was built by Alexander Iannaeus (ruled     
103-76 BCE) and restored by king Herod the Great.      
St. John Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded in this   
fortress. Columns of Herodes' palace.
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Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by...

The late-Roman temple of er-Rabba - an abandoned       
city dating from biblical times and inhabited until    
the Mamluk period (13th-15th CE). Inscriptions on the  
temple walls honour Emperors Diocletian and Maximian   
(286-305 CE).
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The late-Roman temple of er-Rabba - an abandoned city dating from biblica...

Nabataean temple in Dhat Ras on the Jordanian          
Royal Road. The Nabataeans were an Arab, nomadic       
people who dominated the silk- and spice trade between 
the Orient and the near East. They are the builders    
of Petra, the "red-rose city in the desert".
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Nabataean temple in Dhat Ras on the Jordanian Royal Road. The Nabataea...

Nabataean temple in Dhat Ras on the Jordanian          
Royal Road. The Nabataeans were an Arab, nomadic       
people who dominated the silk- and spice trade between 
the Orient and the near East. They are the builders    
of Petra, the "red-rose city in the desert".
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Nabataean temple in Dhat Ras on the Jordanian Royal Road. The Nabataea...

Lehun, a settlement inhabited between the 3rd  BCE     
and the Arab conquest, has a small Nabataean           
temple, 6 x 6 m.
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Lehun, a settlement inhabited between the 3rd BCE and the Arab conquest, h...

Petra was the capital and royal city of the Nabataeans,
a semi-nomadic, Arab people who dominated the silk-    
and spice trade across the deserts. Block monuments,   
perhaps tombs,along the road leading towards the       
inner city of Petra.
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Petra was the capital and royal city of the Nabataeans, a semi-nomadic, Arab peo...

Petra was the capital and royal city of the Nabataeans,
a semi-nomadic, Arab people who dominated the silk-    
and spice trade across the deserts. A votive block     
in the Siq, the narrow gorge which leads to the        
inner city of Petra.
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Petra was the capital and royal city of the Nabataeans, a semi-nomadic, Arab peo...

Petra was the capital and royal city of the Nabataeans,
a semi-nomadic, Arab people who dominated the silk-    
and spice trade across the deserts. The Siq, a narrow, 
1,2 km long gorge hemmed in by 100 m-high cliffs,      
leads into the inner city of Petra.
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Petra was the capital and royal city of the Nabataeans, a semi-nomadic, Arab peo...

Petra was the capital and royal city of the Nabataeans,
a semi-nomadic, Arab people who dominated the silk-    
and spice trade across the deserts. The Siq, a narrow, 
1,2 km long gorge hemmed in by 100 m-high cliffs,      
leads into the inner city of Petra.
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Petra was the capital and royal city of the Nabataeans, a semi-nomadic, Arab peo...

Petra was the capital and royal city of the Nabataeans,
a semi-nomadic, Arab people who dominated the silk-    
and spice trade across the deserts. Remains of giant   
figures carved into the soft rock of the Siq, the      
narrow gorge that leads into the inner city of Petra.
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Petra was the capital and royal city of the Nabataeans, a semi-nomadic, Arab peo...