ocr: that the expansion of the Nabataeans was set. The Nabataeans came from the heart of an Eastern desert, and they found themselves neighbors of peoples who were no longer truly Oriental. Their history and civilization provide US with a particularly clear picture of the amalgamation of Eastern and Western ways that was everywhere taking place at this time, and it was to throw light on this process of Hellenization that excavations were recently undertaken at the Nabataean capital of Petra by the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem. According to some but not all scholars, the Nabataeans can ...
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