52—DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

2,000-Year-Old Nabateans
Help to Rebuild the Negev

The civilization of 2,000 years
ago is presently giving I s r a el
clues to the cultivation of its
desert wasteland—the Negev.
The hints of settlement possi-
bilities in the arid Negev are
being uncovered by Dr. Nelson
Glueck, president of the Hebrew

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College, in Cincinnati,
who is presently on•his fourth and
final season of surveying.
The expedition, co-sponsored by
Louis M. Rabinowitz Founda-
tion of New York, is tracing the
2,000-year-old Nabatean culture
and. is finding that, in Dr.
Glueck's words, "they were the

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best water engineers the world
has ever known."
The Nabateans, half-Helen-
istic and half-Semitic, flourished
between 200 BCE and 200 CE,
although traces of their civili-
zation date to 500 BCE.
Dr. Glueck, in a lengthy. state-
ment to Kennett Love, New York
Times correspOndent, said, "They

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"Abda (a Nabatean-Byzantine
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"The Nabatean traces we
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a blueprint for the redevelop-
ment of the desert," Dr. Glueck
added.
Study of the Nabatean culture
is not new to Dr. Glueck, who,
as former director of the Ameri-
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a report on the mutual securit y
program which emphasized th
turn of Israel toward indust ry r
and reported "marked progress'
in Israel's management of i
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earlier years, and the short-te rry 1
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