Episode 65: What’s The History of Petra?

Written By Emma Southon

References

  • P. J. Parr (1960) Excavations at Petra, 1958–59, Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 92:2, 124-135, 

  • al-bashaireh, Khaled & Hodgins, Gregory. (2014). The Chronology of Qsar El-Bint, Petra: Discussion and New Radiocarbon Dates. Palestine Exploration Quarterly. 146. 281-292. 10.1179/1743130114Y.0000000003. 

  • Sivan, Hagith. Review of The Petra Papyri IV ed. by Antti Arjava et al., and: The Petra Papyri II eds. by Ludwig Koenen, Jorma Kaimio, Robert W. Daniel. Journal of Late Antiquity, vol. 7 no. 1, 2014, p. 194-196. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/jla.2014.0003. 

  • Kouki, P. (2012) The Hinterland of a City: Rural Settlement and Land Use in the Petra Region from the Nabatean-Romans to the Early Islamic Period. Doctoral Thesis. University of Helsinki. https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/33133/thehinter.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y 

  • Lawler, Andrew (2007) ‘Reconstructing Petra.’ Smithsonian 38 (3). Pp. 42-49

  • Bikai, P. M. (2002). The Churches of Byzantine Petra. Near Eastern Archaeology, 65(4), 271–276. https://doi.org/10.2307/3210859

  • Wenning, Robert (2013). ‘Nabatean Niches and the Formation of Early Petra’ in Mouton, M. & Schmid, G. (eds) Men on the Rocks: The Formation of Nabatean Petra. Pp 343-350.

  • Wenning, Robert (2013). ‘Towards “Early Petra”: An Overview of the Early History of the Nabateans in its Context.  in Mouton, M. & Schmid, G. (eds) Men on the Rocks: The Formation of Nabatean Petra. Pp 7 -23

  • Russell, K. W. (1980). The Earthquake of May 19, A. D. 363. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 238, 47–64. https://doi.org/10.2307/1356515

  • Manuel Bravo (2021) The Hidden History of Petra. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5QdKNyrpWA 

  • UNESCO. Petra. http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/326 


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