If you want to see some Petra pictures, then you are in the right place. We gathered some of the best pictures of Petra. The rock-cut capital city of the Nabateans, situated between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea and inhabited since prehistoric times, became a major caravan centre for the incense of Arabia, the silks of China, and the spices of India during Hellenistic and Roman times, a crossroads between Arabia, Egypt, and Syria-Phoenicia.