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The city of Petra was built entirely according to Hellenistic and Roman models but this documentary ignores this and pretends that the Nabateans created the city on their own. Were any actual historians even consulted? The city of Petra was part of the Hellenistic Seleucid kingdom and then part of the Roman Empire. The tombs and engineering follow the Roman models presented by the Roman architect Vitruvius whose work has survived, yet the morons on this so called documentary pretend to be astonished at the engineering feats of the Nabateans when they were just copying the Romans and Greeks. No mention is made of the fact that Petra as part of the Roman Empire from 101 A.D. and the people there soon began writing in Greek instead of Aramaic, and by the 5th century they had converted to Christianity. The documentary also fails to mention that the city was destroyed by Moslems in 663 as they swept across the Near East and destroyed everything in their way and forced everyone to convert to their religion.

Worthless documentary. Read the article on Petra on wikipedia instead.

Utterly ridiculous. This show could have been filmed in 1961, considering the atrocious fashions and music and Jimmy Stewart's childish acting. I assume Jimmy Stewart insisted on this since I have never seen a TV show from 1971 that looks so outdated. It is no wonder it was cancelled. It's a miracle that so many episodes were made. Who was the target audience? People at the old folks home? Every male has such ultra short outmoded haircuts that people would have literally starred at them in 1971 wondering where they had come from... Apparently Jimmy Stewart was living in a dream world in the 1970s.

If you are a fan of early 1960s conservative humor then you will probably like this nonsense.