The world is full of wonders and mysterious beauty, you just need to find it, there is something in every corner that is interesting and delicious in itself. Hidden in these depths are some cities that were lost somewhere in history and have been rediscovered. One such city is in Saudi Arabia, Madain Saleh. The cursed city has a long history, so we know what makes it historic.
Pre-Islamic Arab countries were inhabited by non-believers, one of them was the Nabataean state, known for carving beautiful mountains in the sandy and arid region, and also on the famous Spice Route. At that time, spices going to Europe from India and North Asia passed through their border area, on which these people also collected taxes. These people got a good income from the camel caravans passing through the Nabatean Empire. In Arab countries, traces of the Nabatean Empire are still found. The city buildings and cemeteries of this period are preserved in the desert at its foot, the most famous of which is the city of Petra in Jordan, one of the seven wonders of the world.
The ruins of Madain Saleh, another city of the Nabatean Empire in Saudi Arabia, are also hidden there. After 106 A.D., the Roman Empire conquered the Nabatean Empire and included it in its empire, which opened the way for the trade of spices through the Red Sea, and the desert cities like Madain Saleh became desolate and ruined. I have told you how this city was destroyed and what are the views of the Muslims, click on the I button to check out.
Well, when you go here, you will find hundreds of tombs built in the Nabatean Empire, which are lined up and have various carvings on them. No one knows what was behind the technique or was the technique till now. These mountains are carved with such fine detail that it is surprising to see them, the inscriptions on the tombs give the names of the people buried in them or the resources, laws, and deities worshipped.
Most of the inscriptions on the ruins here are in Aramaic, the Jewish language that was widely spoken before Islam, during this period Aramaic was essential for business and trade, and the Nabataean people also had an early dialect of Arabic, but it is mentioned here only in a few places. among all the tombs of Madain Saleh, Qasr al-Farid is the most famous and the most gigantic. Standing from here, you can now see far into the desert. This golden stone building looks like a dune rising out of the middle of the desert.
Near Madain Saleh is Jamal Aslam, it is believed that the Nabatean god Dashara was worshiped here, Dashara was the god of mountains. Traces of old canals have also been found in this area, through which the Nabateans used to collect water and transport spice shipments to the ports from trade routes, but the Roman Empire found new routes that destroyed these routes and the importance of the area. Now, most people used to go by sea route, but despite all these, these ruins standing here in the middle of the desert testify to their golden history.
