Archaeological discoveries in Nabataean major places such as Petra and Hegra (Madain Saleh) reflect a clear exogenous influence. This study will therefore try to study the possible Lycian influence upon the Nabataean cultural achievements especially in terms of the content of the tomb inscriptions and the design of the tombs.

The Nabataean period (c. 312 BC-AD 106) stands out as a period of prosperity, expansion, cultural growth and a relative political unity. It is clear that the Nabataean commercial activities as well as their involvement in the lucrative trade of aromatics had been the major acknowledged influence on the Nabataean urban settlements, economic development and architectural renaissance.

Nabataean archaeology is well known in southern Jordan, but in the neighboring southern Negev, Nabataean remains attracted less attention. This paper attempts to draw a general, but new view of the Nabataean presence in the region and their activities, including farming, herding, copper industry, trade and others. Their settlement in the region began before the establishment of the city of Aila and continued long after the annexation of their kingdom to the Roman Empire in 106 AD. Studying the remains in the region, the hinterland of Aila, also sheds new light on the position of the city.

"ASIA MINOR An International Journal of Archaeology in Turkey", II, 2022

Understanding the various historical and cultural phenomena in Anatolia requires a broad set of methodologies and perspectives. An exemplary case is western Anatolian under the Achaemenid Persian Empire (approx. mid 6th century - 330s BC), a period of complex interplay of different political and cultural spheres. This article investigates the case of Lycia, a region that has clearly defined features thanks to the wealth of material evidence between the 6th and 4th centuries BC. Recent growing interest in this region, as well as traditional disciplines merging with innovative methodologies, has enhanced our knowledge of Lycia. After briefly contextualizing the role of Lycia in Anatolian studies, the article aims to outline some recent research trends on this region and suggests ideas about possible new trajectories that can be productively explored for western Anatolia as well.

Tectonophysics, 2004

The origin of the Eastern Mediterranean basin (EMB) by rifting along its passive margins is reevaluated. Evidence from these margins shows that this basin formed before the Middle Jurassic; where the older history is known, formation by Triassic or even Permian rifting is indicated. Off Sicily, a deep Permian basin is recorded. In Mesozoic times, Adria was located next to the EMB and moved laterally along their common boundary, but there is no clear record of rifting or significant convergence. Farther east, the Tauride block, a fragment of Africa-Arabia, separated from this continent in the Triassic. After that the Tauride block and Adria were separate units that drifted independently. The EMB originated before Pangaea disintegrated. Two scenarios are thus possible. If the configuration of Pangaea remained the same throughout its life span until the opening of the central Atlantic Ocean (configuration A), then much of the EMB is best explained as a result of separation of Adria from Africa in the Permian, but this basin was modified by later rifting. The Levant margin formed when the Tauride block was detached, but space limitations require this block to have also extended farther east. Alternatively, the original configuration (A2) of Pangaea may have changed by~500 km of left-lateral slip along the Africa-North America boundary. This implies that Adria was not located next to Africa, and most of the EMB formed by separation of the Tauride block from Africa. Adria was placed next to the EMB during the transition from the Pangaea A2 to the Pangaea A configuration in the Triassic. Both scenarios raise some problems, but these are more severe for the first one. Better constraints on the history of Pangaea are thus required to decipher the formation of the Eastern Mediterranean basin.

Journal of the Geological …, 1973

The evolution of the western Mediterranean of an 'interna1 zone plate' by the mechanism basin is considered. The Provence basin invoked by Karig. Lower or middle Miocene results from the Oligocene migration of Conica squeezing of the interna1 zones against the and Sardinia southeastwards. The North North Afncan platform caused ejection of the African basin was created by the dislocation flysch nappes.-THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN BASIN has long been interpreted in two different ways. Historically it has been thought of as a remnant of a former large Alpine ocean, the Tethys, in which sedimentary material, making up part of the Alpine mountain belts, was deposited. On the other hand, a former emerged land, located in the present western Mediterranean basin, is often postulated to explain geological features observed in Sicily, North Africa, the Balearic Islands and the sw Alps (Termier I g I I ; Flandrin I 948 ; Kuenen I 959 ; Colom & Escandell 1962 ; Caire 1965 ; Stanley & Mutti 1968; etc.). The data gathered by the above authors rule out the Tethyan hypothesis. The western Mediterranean basin has to be created either by such processes as oceanization, or by large horizontal displacements of certain blocks so that land can emerge as late as upper Eocene times. Refraction and magnetic anomaly studies suggest that the abyssal part (deeper than 2500 m) of the western Mediterranean basin is oceanic and overlaid by a thick sedimentary sequence (Fahlquist & Hersey 1969; Le Borgne et al. 1971; Hinz in press). In th& paier (Fig. 1) the northern part of the western Mediterranean basin that is surrouncled by southern France,

Naukratis: Greek Diversity in Egypt. Studies on East Greek pottery and exchange in the Eastern Mediterranean (British Museum Research Publication 162), 2006

Jordan Journal for History and Archaeology, Volume No 4, 2020: Special Issue on Third International Conference on Petra and the Nabataean Culture held in Petra, Jordan, on June 18-21, 2018, 2020

The author presents a summary of the previous notes concerning the presence of the Nabataeans in the site of al-Wu’ayra at the eastern border of Petra in the light of updated archaeological data. The Medieval Petra Mission extended the research to the overall chronology for a better understanding of the short-term Crusader settlement in the entire framework of the history of the site. Beside a number of generic statements, many questions are still waiting for an answer. Among the others: what’s the actual consistence of archaeological data and which questions they pose? What can be said today about the use and function of the site during Nabataean period? The author presents the available archaeological data concerning the oldest history of the site and some hypothesis altogether with a correction of some previous interpretation concerning the Nabataean phase of the site on the basis of recent research by the Medieval Petra Mission.