Imhiylah al-Bedoul prepares a meal in the Petra backcountry, where her family spends the summer tending goats, using water from a Nabataean cistern. A lifelong resident of Petra, she raised six of her ten children in a cave near the city center. But after the city was made a world heritage site in 1985, the government moved the thousand-member Bedoul tribe to Umm Sayhun, a village of cinder-block houses.

—From “Petra: Ancient City of Stone,” December 1998, National Geographic magazine