(Русская версия статьи на странице Бориса Аарона
Russian version of article of Aaron Boris on the his page  or on the link  http://www.andersval.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4370&Itemid=143#comments  )


A little the history.

It is little known about the tribes of “nabatei”,
 from nowhere they arrived on, not how disappeared their civilization. There was this interesting people.
Joseph Flavius casually mentions on them. Heathens, merchants, who conducted caravans from Arabia to Syria, to Israel, Egypt. It is ethnically close to the Arabs.
Nabatei  were skillful builders, those much adopted in Greeks and Romans. In emperor  Troyan 's times Nabateya became the East outskirts of Roman empire.
Bedouins revealed that forgotten in the mountains in the territory of contemporary Jordan the capital of Nabatei the city “Petra” many centuries later. And, being by people in the everyday plan unassuming, they became to use ruins of ancient city for its dwelling.

For the Europeans Petra   became  known since beginning 19 century, when it in 1812 revealed and described Johann Ludwig  Burkkhard, Swiss traveller and researcher. So that it is better to study the local customs,  Burkkhard  itself became "  beduin" - hi studied language, let go beard, it lived in the tent, even took pseudonym Ibrahim  ibn of Abdalla. And it was compensated - it entered into the history as the discoverer of Petra - one of the miracles of light.

 But Johann Ludwig  Burkkhard  dearly paid for his discovery - he died young, in 1817, of dysentery, without having lived of up to 33rd years. In 1839 to Peter visited remarkable Scottish artist David Roberts (1796 - 1864). David Roberts was born in Scotland, in the small settlement in the environments of Edinburgh, in the very poor family. Nevertheless, because of the talent and the purposefulness, Roberts became the acknowledged painter, the authentic master of view, who lustrously combines realism and photographic authenticity with the romanticism.

 David Roberts. Petra.

 David Roberts.  Petra -"the monastery"

 David Roberts- " Arabian from the tribe  "Benisaid".

A little the present.

You can fall in to Peter differently.
The very simple way from Eylat to go in to Petra to the one-day excursion. Two hours of ride on the outstanding, not are worse than European, to Jordan roads, in the new, Jordan assembling bus - and you are in Petra.

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Fragments of portico. I am not the expert of architectural terms, but you will focus attention on the triangle above the facade. Like this is similar to the Ancient
Greek porticoes, but not entirely.

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To go on the gorge approximately hour those desiring can use the local of "taksi" - similar of "the coach" or simply the donkey. Immediately it must warn - pleasure not of the cheap.

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All this - the city of "corpse" - Nekropol.

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But where " the city of living "? Where did live "nabatei" themselves?
- They lived modestly, in the tents. It is worthwhile so already to worry for some several decades of perishable terrestrial life? It is necessary to think about the eternal. Here  nabateii  thought.

Therefore from " the city of iving" little which was preserved.

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For example, this amphitheatre. I want to note in conclusion that I did not set as a goal to write detailed guide on Peter, but altogether he only shared with impression from the interesting and cognitive trip.

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" Mistress of the desert"

the photo №11-  Gyulchatay, open your face!