Word: nabataean
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...Nowadays, however, Ali is lucky to be guiding a handful of backpackers, let alone world leaders in inappropriate attire. On a good day, Petra?the ancient city of the Nabataean kingdom that ruled Arabia 2,000 years ago and was, until recently, Jordan's primary tourist attraction?drew 3,000 visitors daily. But that was before Israel erupted in a spate of violence that sent tourists packing region-wide. These days, only a few trickle through the two-kilometer-long narrow, rose-hued stone gorge to emerge, blinking in the sunlight, opposite the Treasury building, a location easily recognizable...