A crossroads for the caravan trade, Petra prospered and built a modest empire. By A.D. 106, when Rome annexed it and expanded a Nabataean theater carved from its cliffs, 30,000 lived in the city.
—From “Petra: Ancient City of Stone,” December 1998, National Geographic magazine
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