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Archaeologists person discovered nan remains of a 2,000-year-old temple submerged disconnected nan Italian seashore adjacent Naples, apt built by immigrants from Nabataea, an ancient Arabian kingdom.
Nabataea is known for Petra’s iconic rock-carved structures, including nan Treasury, famously featured successful "Indiana Jones and nan Last Crusade."
The Nabataean kingdom erstwhile controlled a waste and acquisition web stretching from bluish Arabia to nan Mediterranean, dealing successful incense, gold, ivory, and perfumes. Their wealthiness peaked successful nan first period A.D., exemplified by Petra’s Treasury.
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The temple, thought to person been utilized by Nabataean traders, was later buried nether actual and pottery, perchance owed to nan traders leaving nan area, according to a study published successful Antiquity connected September 12.
Student Michele Stefanile pinch nan Scuola Superiore Meridionale successful Italy first began nan underwater study successful 2021 to hunt nan area.
Camels seen successful beforehand of The Treasury successful Petra, a celebrated archaeological site. Petra is simply a UNESCO World Heritage tract and 1 of nan 7 wonders of nan world. Formerly an ancient Nabataean capital, coming Petra is inhabited by The Bidoul Bedouins. (Dominika Zarzycka/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
"When I was a student, I was impressed by nan beingness of immoderate Nabatean worldly recovered somewhere successful nan sea in Puteoli since nan XVIII century, and I was besides astonished that cipher really organized a hunt for this awesome humanities testimony.," said Michele Stefanile, a maritime archaeologist astatine nan Southern Graduate School successful Naples to Fox News Digital.
In 2023, researchers mapping nan seafloor discovered 2 submerged rooms pinch Roman-style walls. The rooms, astir 32 by 16 feet, contained 2 achromatic marble altars, each pinch rectangular recesses that apt held ineffable stones.
"It seems that we person a building dedicated to nan Nabataean gods, but pinch Roman architecture and Latin inscription," Stefanile said to Live Science.
Aerial position of a recently-discovered Nabataean temple disconnected nan seashore of Napoli successful Italy. (Michele Stefanile, Antiquity)
Marble slabs successful nan rooms were inscribed successful Latin pinch nan building "Dusari sacrum," meaning "consecrated to Dushara," nan deity of nan Nabataean people.
Volcanic activity complete hundreds of years has submerged astir 1.2 miles of Roman-era buildings adjacent Pozzuoli, including warehouses and different structures from nan ancient port. Artifacts recovered since nan 18th period suggested a temple mightiness beryllium buried there, but its nonstop location was chartless until now.
Underwater photos taken by Michele Stefanile show leftover slabs from nan Nabataean temple. (Michele Stefanile, Antiquity)
"Possibly aft Trajan's conquest of Arabia successful 106 A.D., nan Nabataeans had nary much anticipation of free trading successful Puteoli, and they perchance abandoned nan harbor," Stefanile said to Live Science.
After Nabataea was annexed into nan Roman Empire successful A.D. 106, nan inland waste and acquisition routes controlled by nan Nabataeans collapsed. The temple astatine Puteoli whitethorn person been buried successful consequence to these changes.
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"The full region is characterized by an aggravated volcanic activity, that caused nan submersion of nan full ancient coastal portion astatine a extent of 0-6 meters," according to nan Scuola Superirore Meridionale.
Jasmine is simply a writer astatine Fox News Digital and a subject spouse based successful New Orleans. Stories tin beryllium sent to jasmine.baehr@fox.com
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