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all sport voice-over: this is bbc news. we will have the headlines for you at the top of the hour, which is straight after this programme. i m alice morrison, an adventurer and writer. i ve cycled across africa and run across the sahara. now i m on the trail of a mysterious and forgotten arabian civilisation the nabataeans. are we standing in the birthplace of written arabic? i think i would say that, yes. they were nomads who forged a rich civilisation here in the harsh desert conditions of western arabia from the fourth century bce. they ruled for around three centuries until they were swallowed up by the roman empire. now all that s left are the enigmatic remains of their great desert cities of petra and hegra in modern dayjordan and saudi arabia. and this is where i have come to explore, to find out how they survived and thrived here, who they were, and even what they looked like. i want to search for clues about their world. i ll investigate their ancient sites, delvin
Our traffic jams to get to work trying could save frustrated commuters in west africa getting investors on board is another question. And theres more than oil under the sands of libya and truffles on something to be sniffed at. I mean first lets do business talk about taking the twinkle out of south africas gold and platinum mines a power price hike could see the state the shit around ninety thousand jobs over the next few years thats the warning from the National Mining association the government has approved above Inflation Price Increases and david utility. Breaking south africa has enjoyed widespread power concert in recent weeks because of the crisis that has come which supplies almost all the countrys power but the minerals
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It s been a true voyage of discovery through the nabataean world, from their great capital of petra to here at their second city in the hegra. finding out who they were, what they believed, and how their civilisation was run. and i ve been impressed by what i ve discovered about them. we may be 2,000 years apart, but i think i would have liked the nabataea ns. they seem to have been very resourceful people. they built a sophisticated society in the middle of the desert sands. one of the things that surprised me about the nabataeans is the prominent role of women. they held some of the most important positions in society. priestesses, traders, and in fact, the most important role in society, which is as queens. the crown passed from mother to daughter. i find that amazing. it s an intoxicating era of discovery, with experts from so many disciplines coming together to try and understand