The Nabataeans (Nabateans) were an Arab people who lived in northern Arabia and the Southern Levant. they built settlements, most prominently the assumed capital city of Petra, in AD 37 – c. 100. The magnificent city of Petra is so impressive, that even today tourists stare in awe at the great ruins. Yet, this impressive city was hidden away in a cleft in the rock with access through a narrow crack in a mountain.
That is how illusive and mysterious the Nabataeans were. Thats make Petra one of the seven wonders because if the mysterious of Nabataeans History. Jane Taylor, a writer, describes them as "one of the most gifted peoples of the ancient world".