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312 BCE – 106 CE
Nabataean Kingdom
Desert traders who carved the rose-red city of Petra from living rock.
Timeline
c. 300 BCE
Petra prospers
Nabataean traders carve a great city into desert cliffs.
c. 100 BCE
Mastery of water
Ingenious channels and cisterns turn the desert city green.
106 CE
Annexed by Rome
Rome absorbs the kingdom as the province of Arabia Petraea.