Category:Nabateans

Nabateans were ancient people of North Arabia. They were known for their strings of oases where they farmed and had a loosely-controlled trading network on the routes that linked them. They also produced a unique style of painted potted ceramics, which became dispersed in the Greco-Roman culture and the art of making them was eventually lost. They lived in oasis settlements between Arabia and Syria and from the Euphrates River to the Red Sea. They lived in these oasis settlements from 37 A.D. to approximately 100 A.D. when Trajan conquered them and annexed their kingdom to the Roman Empire.