- Stops on the
- Incense
Road
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- Gaza(Jenysos)
Elusa
Ruheiba
Obodat
Wadi Fiqreh
Wadi Arabah
Sela
Rekem, (Petra)
Ayl
Gryn
Hawara
Wadi Rumm
- Al Uyaynah
- Northern Desert Trek
- Tayma
Meda'in Saleh
- Dedan
- Khaybar
Medina
- Southern Desert Trek
Najran
Sa'ada
- Yathul
Marib (Saba)
Timna (Qatraban)
Shibam(Hadramaut)
Ubar
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- Camels
- The Incense Sea Route
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The Northern Desert Trek
Crossing the trackless desert can be a life-threatening experience,
if you do not know any sources of water. The ancient Nabataeans
created routes through the desert by creating their own watering
sources. They would locate large rocks in the desert and harvest
water from them. The rock pictured below has several water catchment
system on it.
 Above:
Along the edge of the rock, small channels were cut. On one side
they led to a dam, hidden from prying eyes below. |
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On the lower levels of the rock pictured above right,
small channels led rainwater to a small hole in the ground. This
opened to a large bell shaped chamber under the ground that could
hold thousands of gallons of water. (Below: Herb lifts the lid
on the underground cistern)
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- Left:
- On the other side of the rock, a large dam caught run off
from that side. Local Bedouin have now re-surfaced the ancient
dam so it holds water each spring.
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| Right: In the cracks of a huge rock in
the desert, several kilometers away, the Nabataeans built dams
to catch water before it ran out into the desert. Many of these
ancient cisterns were covered with stone roofs. To the left of
the dam on this picture were many Nabataean and Thamudic inscriptions.
These dams were placed well back from the outside of the rocks,
so that they were not visible to passers-by. |
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