What ancient technology have we missed out on gees when you see images like this,these massive boulders carved out into elaborate buildings and tombs,made in times when primitive tools were drills and high technology was not around,must have taken years to carve with hammer & chisel,what a pain staking job..they are perfectly symmetrical and architecturally exquisite..
I can't even begin to imagine how much work went into crafting these tombs, both inside and out.
It appeared that all of these rock tombs at one time had tablets like this one, which give the names of the people who are buried there, who built the tomb and other information. The tablets are written in the Nabataean alphabet, a consonantal alphabet that descended from the Aramaic alphabet via the Syriac alphabet. A cursive form of it in turn developed into the Arabic alphabet from the 4th century. (from Wiki)
The interior of the diwan and the work on it were pretty amazing.
“The diwan (meeting room), carved into a hillside to shield it from the wind, is one of the few extant examples of non-funerary architecture in Mada’in Saleh. … [The area was probably used by the Nabataeans] as a cult site. Opposite the hollowed-out room are niches cut into the rock where Nabataean deities were carved – now sadly weathered.” (from Lonely Planet, “Oman, UAE & Arabian Peninsula”)
This is the very impressive exterior of the diwan:
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