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Israel: Expert takes a look at mysterious scrolls<\/h3>\n

Petra was one of the world’s most advanced cities and a gem of the Middle East.<\/p>\n

For years, it served as the region’s political, cultural and economic hub, established by the Nabateans, a people native to the land who specialise in facilitating trade.<\/p>\n

They set up several settlements in geographically significant areas, but Petra became the grandest.<\/p>\n

The area around Petra has been inhabited from as early as 7000 BC, and the Nabateans may have settled there around the 4th century BC.<\/p>\n

Thousands of years of history have left the former capital city with a rich history, and one in which archaeologists previously found a series of documents revealing much about its ancient inhabitants.<\/p>\n

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The find came in 1961 when a team of archaeologists was working in the area.<\/p>\n

As with the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the documents had sat forgotten in a cave for around 2,000 years.<\/p>\n

They were explored during the Smithsonian Channel’s documentary, ‘Sacred sites: Petra’, where the documentary’s narrator noted: “They reveal astonishing information about the life of a Nabatean woman called Abi-adan, who lived in the first century AD.”<\/p>\n

This woman had owned a large orchard of date trees at Maoza near the Dead Sea, hinting that women in ancient Petra were able to generate significant capital.<\/p>\n

Today, the documents are held by the Israel Antiquities Authority, and Professor Hannah Cotton-Paltiel, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is an expert on the unique scrolls.<\/p>\n

“Abi-adan is a Nabatean woman and the two documents are interesting because she’s selling the same orchard to one person and then to another,” she explained.<\/p>\n

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