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Bettany Hughes' Lost Worlds

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The story of Nabataea, a forgotten global empire of the ancient world.

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Episode 1: The Nabataeans

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The story of Nabataea, a forgotten global empire of the ancient world, that stretched from the deserts of Arabia to the far corners of the Mediterranean. In this first episode, Bettany's investigation begins in the ancient site of Hegra in Saudi Arabia. This once-thriving outpost is rich in recent discoveries, including the human remains of 70 people from the Nabataean period, buried in stunning rock-cut tombs

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David Butcher

Who were the Nabataeans?” you might ask. And that’s very much the point of Bettany Hughes’s series. They’re the ancient civilisation that history forgot, so Hughes wants to jog history’s memory. She charts how they started as a nomadic people in Arabia, then built an incense trading empire that crossed continents and left behind a fragmented legacy, more of which is coming to light from archaeologists’ digs (and dives) year by year.

Their greatest surviving site is Petra in Jordan, but Hughes also takes in Saudi Arabia, the Greek Islands and Naples to uncover the classical world’s missing link.

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