15. The Nabataeans - The Final Days Of Petra
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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The Story of the Nabateans
The nabetians had a good level of literacy, and it seems even common people could read and write to some extent. Despite this apparently widespread literacy, no histories or accounts actually written by nabateans have survived. The almost complete lack of nabetean sources means that to tell their story we are left searching through the written records of other societies looking for any mention of them.
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