The Story of the Nabatians

The arabian peninsula is being pushed north at a rate of 15 millimeters year, or about as fast as your finger nails grow. This vice like pressure has caused the land mass to tilt gently towards the northeast. The earliest hint of a people who may have been the nabetians comes from the sources of the late kings of assyria in the eighth and seventh centuries b c. They had struggled to control the nomadic tribal peoples living in the deserts to their south.