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...
by Brock Meier | May 9, 2023 | history, Nabataea, News
Loving Petra to death When will Petra disappear? In 1000 years? Or maybe 10? Nearly a million tourists a year—two million hands and two million feet—roam over one of the New Seven Wonders of the World—and World Heritage Site—the ancient city of Petra. They come...
by Brock Meier | Jan 21, 2023 | history, Nabataea, Writing
Allure of the Short Story I haven’t written a short story in quite some time. My last efforts toward such resulted in the collection I am tentatively calling “She Knew She Could Fly” (perhaps to be published down the road). I intended to intertwine a dozen (or more as...
by Brock Meier | Nov 29, 2022 | history, Writing
“I was with book, as a woman is with child.”—C. S. Lewis, in “Till We Have Faces” A Story In the late 1970s, I first read the ancient account of a man tormented by demons and then delivered from their influence on the shores of Lake Kinneret. The story...
