Petra - Lost City of the Nabataeans (TGSC EP 3)

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Enclosed by towering rocks and watered by a perennial stream, Petra not only possessed the advantages of a fortress, but controlled the main commercial routes which passed through it to Gaza in the west, to Bosra and Damascus in the north, to Aqaba and Leuce Come on the Red Sea, and across the desert to the Persian Gulf. Petra is listed in Egyptian campaign accounts and the Amarna letters as Pel, Sela or Seir. Though the city was founded relatively late, a sanctuary has existed there since very ancient times. Stations 19 through 26 of the stations list of Exodus are places associated with Petra. This part of the country was biblically assigned to the Horites, the predecessors of the Edomites. The habits of the original natives may have influenced the Nabataean custom of burying the dead and offering worship in half-excavated caves. Although Petra is usually identified with Sela, which means a rock, the Biblical references refer to it as "the cleft in the rock", referring to its entrance. In the parallel passage, however, Sela is understood to mean simply "the rock" (2 Chronicles xxv. 12, see LXX). The temples were first discovered by French missionaries in 1860. Henri Mahout, a French botanist started intensive research and restoration programs. These research efforts continued until 1968, when the Vietnam war disrupted the studies. Initially, he did not believe that the temples were built by Cambodians, but by another race which had concurred and occupied Cambodia for over 2000 years ago. His theory would later be proven to be incorrect, after that researchers discovered scripts on the walls of the temples, and stone sculptures, that have made it possible for archeologists to piece together the history of Cambodia. Now it is known that Angkor, was the great capital city of the Khmer empire from the city’s founding in about AD 880 until about 1225. The history of Angkor Wat dates back to the kingdom of Funan. This kingdom was established by an Indian Brahmin, and in AD200, the country was peacefully settled by Indian traders. Four hundred years later, the kingdom had become a prosperous trading region. As the area was located on the Pilgrim rout between China and India, Hinduism and Chinese Buddhism was adopted by the new settlers. The Indian and Chinese influence can still be felt in Cambodia, and the temples of Angkor Wat closely resembles Hindu and Buddhist temples that can be found in Northern India and in Nepal. In the end of AD600, the Funan Empire lost much of its power to the kingdom of Chenla. The capital of this new empire, Sambor, was located about 40 miles to the Southeast of Angkor. During this time, beautiful sculptures and carvings in sand-stone was popular. In AD750, a king with a reputation of being a war-like person, who was able to expand the Chenla kingdom. However, trade with India stopped, and the Indonesian Empire raised to power. Check out other videos in this series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKre86s7f9XT20gbSyNK2YT0n-Y-x4jEB Visit our Website: http://c7publishing.com/AAA/Truth Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/aaarguments Join our Facebook Group Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/Ancientastronautarguments Follow us on Twitter & Google+: https://twitter.com/ancientarchive https://plus.google.com/u/0/115135106190428510445 _____________________________________________ AAA uses a number of social media services to complement its traditional public outreach activities. These services include Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and social bookmarking and sharing buttons on AAA’s websites. The number and nature of social media services used by AAA will change over time. The following disclaimer applies to all social media services in use by AAA at any given time, regardless of whether they are listed on this page. Any content, views, opinions and/or responses to questions uploaded, expressed or submitted by the creators, sponsors, advertisers or users of social media services utilized by AAA, other than the content provided by AAA, are solely the views, opinions and responsibility of the person submitting them and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of AAA. AAA is not responsible for content that third parties publish, post, upload, distribute, disseminate or otherwise transmit via social media services. While AAA will endeavor to maintain the currency and accuracy of information published via social media services, AAA does not warrant the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of the information available on its social media channels.