by Brock Meier | Oct 20, 2025 | Creativity, history, Nabataea, Other
Another Nabataean Artifact Holding in my hand an authentic Nabataean bronze coin, and admiring my faithful replica of an item of Nabataean jewelry, I looked forward to my next project. I determined to produce a copy of an extant ancient scroll, a legal document once...
by Brock Meier | Oct 13, 2025 | Arts, Creativity, history, Nabataea, Other
A Copper Bracelet As mentioned in a previous article, I determined to craft two different replicas of Nabataean material culture, each of which is not available on the open market. The first thing I tackled was the subject of jewelry. There have been astounding finds...
by Brock Meier | Oct 3, 2025 | history, Nabataea
A Material Culture I’ve had a fascination with the material culture of the Nabataeans ever since I began researching them for my novel The Stone Cutter. In the last few decades, a wealth of physical evidence has been uncovered by archaeologists as they sift...
by Brock Meier | May 28, 2025 | history, Nabataea, News, Writing
Brock Meier releases a new short story It has been a very long time (far too long!) since this blog has been updated, but Brock Meier has been at work on a number of fronts. The first news is that he is on the verge of releasing a brand new short story for his...
by Brock Meier | Jun 20, 2024 | Books, history, News
Audio interviews with The Stone Cutter characters Our interviewer Jelani recently sat down with ten of the characters from Brock Meier’s novel of Petra, The Stone Cutter, and asked them about their lives. The interviews exposed information not directly revealed...
by Brock Meier | Oct 5, 2023 | Arts, history, Nabataea
Inscribed in stone The Nabataeans are famously known today for their carved-stone memorial tombs in the ancient city of Petra, or as they named it—Raqmu. Each year, around a million people travel to Raqmu/Petra (named as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World), to...