Archeology
A rock-cut web of pipes and cisterns let 30,000 people thrive in Petra’s desert
Nabataean engineers carved channels, cisterns, and pipelines directly into sandstone cliffs across what is now southern Jordan, building a water network that sustained a thriving desert city at Petra from 300 BC to AD 300. The system captured spring flow and seasonal flash floods, stored water in rock-cut reservoirs, and distributed it through gravity-fed pipes […]
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