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The Nabatean tomb city of Hegra is finally open to tourists.
If you do nothing else, open the link and look at the pictures. They are surprising and worth it.
I suspect the content was heavily influenced by MBS's political team, and it reads at times like a tourist pamphlet, but there is good content throughout the article on the Nabateans, why we don't know much about them, and how important Hegra is to our understanding of their culture.
(One thing I noticed is that one of the inscriptions refers to "...the Lord of the world...", which seems to be to be implying a monotheistic belief system...?)