rock-palaces

Updated: May 13, 2025

In their ports the wares of the Mediterranean were exchanged for those of India; the great southern caravan-route, which ran from Gaza to the mouth of the Euphrates and the Persian gulf, passed through the capital of the Nabataeans Petra whose still magnificent rock-palaces and rock-tombs furnish clearer evidence of the Nabataean civilization than does an almost extinct tradition.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book V : The Establishment of the Military Monarchy

Many stone sarcophagi, some of which are artistically carved, lie scattered about in almost every conceivable position some even lying across the tops of others. But these windowless rock-palaces are all empty. Leaving Gerasa, my way leads in a general direction westward over the mountains of Gilead.

Elmer Ulysses Hoenshel - My Three Days in Gilead

In their ports the wares of the Mediterranean were exchanged for those of India; the great southern caravan-route, which ran from Gaza to the mouth of the Euphrates and the Persian gulf, passed through the capital of the Nabataeans Petra whose still magnificent rock-palaces and rock-tombs furnish clearer evidence of the Nabataean civilization than does an almost extinct tradition.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)