Have you already been to Nabatean City of Petra? What do you find interesting in the place? No doubt you had fascinated in the carved grandiose buildings, temples and tombs out of solid sandstone rock, isn’t it?

Did you know that the original inhabited in Petra were the Edomites before the arrival of the Nabateans? Who are the Nabateans migrated in Petra? The Nabateans were exceptionally skilled traders, facilitating commerce between China, India, the Far East, Egypt, Syria, Greece and Rome. They dealt goods as spices, incense, gold, animals, and iron, copper, sugar, medicines, ivory, perfumes and fabrics, just name the few. They’re excelling in water conservation and highly skilled water engineers who irrigated their land with an extensive system of dams, canals and reservoirs.

Petra was originally a religious city or urban center for the Nabateans.  It functioned as the center for the twice-yearly pilgrimages and festivals, and it also functioned as a burial city. There are several temples, a festival theater, a nyphaeum, a bathhouse, as sacred way, a monumental gate, many pools, and several other public buildings which are situated in the central valley where the Royal Tombs located.

It was estimated that Petra might have had a population of 20,000 to 30,000 inhabitants and it was calculated that 10 people to a household, this would come to at least 2000 large houses.