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all sport voice-over: this is bbc news. we will have the headlines for you at the top of the hour, which is straight after this programme. im alice morrison, an adventurer and writer. ive cycled across africa and run across the sahara. now im on the trail of a mysterious and forgotten arabian civilisation — the nabataeans. are we standing in the birthplace of written arabic? i think i would say that, yes. they were nomads who forged a rich civilisation here in the harsh desert condit...

With its bubbling mountains all around, and then its like wham! boom! this incredible tomb. the impact is terrific. its monumental, its massive, its immense — you run out of adjectives — and its just here on its own. qasr al—farid — the lonely castle. can you imagine if you were a nabatean trader and youd come up from the south and youd cross the desert, and you were hungry and you were thirsty, and then with no reference whatsoever, with no internet, with no photographs, with no paintin...