JORDAN: The Empire Carved Entirely Into Stone | 4K Travel Documentary
In the fourth century before the common era, a tribe of Arabian nomads learned to move water through two hundred kilometres of clay pipes carved into desert rock. They built a capital for thirty thousand people in a place that receives fifteen centimetres of rain a year. The Nabataeans didn't construct their empire — they cut it out of the cliffs.
Jordan holds what they left behind. A country smaller than Portugal, surrounded by Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Israel, with almost no oil and almost no water. It has taken in more refugees per capita than almost any nation on Earth — and it is still standing.
In this documentary, discover how the Nabataeans engineered an invisible water system that baffled modern hydraulic scientists, walk the canyon where a Swiss explorer risked his life to rediscover Petra in 1812, and cross Wadi Rum where Bedouin riders broke the Ottoman Empire in 1917.
From Amman's nine-thousand-year-old Citadel to the Dead Sea sinking one metre a year, this is the full story of a small kingdom that learned to carve what it could not afford to build.
▶ See More Travel Documentaries:
AMAZON: • THE AMAZON: The Last River No Map Has Ever...
THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ: • THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ: The Waterway That Co...
▶ Subscribe: / @whereonearth4k
#Jordan #TravelDocumentary #Documentary #WhereOnEarth #MiddleEast #Petra