The city of Petra was built entirely according to Hellenistic and Roman models but this documentary ignores this and pretends that the Nabateans created the city on their own. Were any actual historians even consulted? The city of Petra was part of the Hellenistic Seleucid kingdom and then part of the Roman Empire. The tombs and engineering follow the Roman models presented by the Roman architect Vitruvius whose work has survived, yet the morons on this so called documentary pretend to be astonished at the engineering feats of the Nabateans when they were just copying the Romans and Greeks. No mention is made of the fact that Petra as part of the Roman Empire from 101 A.D. and the people there soon began writing in Greek instead of Aramaic, and by the 5th century they had converted to Christianity. The documentary also fails to mention that the city was destroyed by Moslems in 663 as they swept across the Near East and destroyed everything in their way and forced everyone to convert to their religion.
Worthless documentary. Read the article on Petra on wikipedia instead.
Worthless documentary. Read the article on Petra on wikipedia instead.
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