15. The Nabataeans - The Last Days of Petra
The 1st century Roman author and naturalist Pliny the Elder gives 1 early account of the city in his work Natural History.

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The 1st century Roman author and naturalist Pliny the Elder gives 1 early account of the city in his work Natural History.
The 1st century Roman writer Pliny the Elder writes about the effect this colour had on anyone who saw it. For purple the rods and axes of Rome clear a path.