About the beginning of our era,the country was held by semi-civilized tribes, living almostexclusively under the tent. They owned allegiance to theNabathsean kings, whose kingdom comprised the whole regionbetween Petraea and Palestine, the Hauran bounding it to thenorth, and the Nejed and Hejaz to… … Fir,. 178.—The Raised StanDe Luynes, torn. Hujr-vl-Mansiib,p. 156. Sepulchral Architecture. 271 the important cities of Petra and Bostra.1 Now in one of its aridgorges on the south, known as < Medain-Salih, were found awhole series of tombs, exhibiting no ornamentation except ontheir rock-cut…
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