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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. i'm alice morrison, an adventurer and writer. i've cycled across africa and run across the sahara. now i'm 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 conditions of western arabia from the fourth century bce. they ruled for around three centuries until t...

Script itself. so are we standing in the birthplace of written arabic? yes, i think i would say that, yes. for an arabic scholar — i studied arabic for a long time — learning that i'm actually standing in the birthplace of the script is... is... it's thrilling. it's very exciting. i'm a script nerd. the hundreds of unique inscriptions at hegra are just one draw for academics who come here from all around the world looking for answers about this mysterious people, and there's a real push to find out as much as possible about how ordinary nabataea ns lived. i'm in north—west saudi arabia, ...