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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...