Nabateans - Mamshit and Avdat

Mamshit

• Learn here about the Nabateans from the Book of Genesis and how they interacted with Maccabies and Hasmoneans.

• Visit massive Nabatean mansions, bathhouses and fortified towers

• ee Byzantine churches added to the city after the Nabateans were converted to Christianity.

Avdat 

• Smell for yourself the incense carried by the Nabateans 2000km from Yemin

• Drive to the top of this grand acropolis.  

• Ascend a 3rd century fortified tower that protected traders on their journey through the desert.

• See the devestation of a 7th century earthquake that leveled the entire region.

• Visit a royal tomb, temples to the godess of love and beauty, Aphrodites (Uzza) and other Nabatean dieties.

• Visit a Necropolis around the mountain made of over 200 manmade caves.

• See how the monks of local monestaries grew vinyards in the middle of the desert

• Hear about research underway to reproduce wine from 5th century grape seeds found at Avdat.