Featured on Bing - 마다인 살레, 사우디아라비아 Mada’in Saleh, Saudi Arabia

 

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2022년7월27일자 윈도우에 올라온 마다인 살레의 소개입니다. 그날그날의 새로운 내용을 알려주어 재미있게 보고 있는 페이지입니다.

 

 

마다인 살레, 사우디아라비아

약 2,000 년 전, 로마인들이 불렀던 마다인 살레 (Mada'in Saleh) 또는 헤그라 (Hegra)는 나바테아 왕국의 번성하는 도시였으며 향신료, 향 및 몰약 거래의 중심지였으며 향수와 약을 만드는 데 사용되는 귀중한 나무 수지였습니다. 나바테아인들은 정확한 기원을 알 수 없는 아랍인이었다. 그들은 아라비아 북부와 남부 레반트에 살았습니다. 마다인 살레(Mada'in Saleh)는 북쪽의 수도인 페트라(Petra)에 이어 두 번째로 크고 최남단 도시였다. 페트라와 메카 사이의 중간쯤에, 마다인 살레는 주로 무역 교차로로 사용되었고, 나바테아인들을 고대 세계의 나머지 지역들에 번영하는 중매인으로 세우는 데 중요한 역할을 했다.

오늘날 사우디아라비아에서 가장 유명한 역사적 보물 중 하나이며 유네스코 세계 문화 유산으로 지정되어 있으며, 도시 외곽의 사암 노두로 조각 된 화려한 정면이있는 100 개 이상의 무덤으로 구별됩니다. 가장 작은 것은 높이가 세 미터 미만이며, 가장 큰 것은 18 미터 이상입니다. 무덤의 대부분은 그룹으로 조각되었지만,이 특별히 장식 된 기념물은 상대적으로 고립되어 있기 때문에 오늘날 Qasr al-Farid (외로운 성)로 알려져 있습니다. 바람에 휩쓸린 사막에서는 상인들의 번잡함과 향신료로 가득 찬 캐러밴은 오래 전에 사라졌지만, 이 손으로 새겨진 바위들이 갑자기 풍경 밖으로 솟아오르는 것은 모든 도로가 헤그라로 이어졌던 때의 증거로 남아 있다.

 

 

원문

Mada’in Saleh, Saudi Arabia

About 2,000 years ago, Mada’in Saleh, or Hegra as the Romans called it, was a thriving city of the Nabataean Kingdom, and a centre for the trade of spices, incense and myrrh, a valuable tree resin used to make perfume and medicine. The Nabataeans were Arab people whose precise origins are unknown. They lived in northern Arabia and the Southern Levant. Mada’in Saleh was their second largest and southernmost city after Petra, their capital city to the north. About halfway between Petra and Mecca, Mada’in Saleh served primarily as a trading crossroads and was instrumental in establishing the Nabataeans as prosperous middlemen to the rest of the ancient world.

Today it is one of Saudi Arabia’s most celebrated historic treasures, and a UNESCO World Heritage site, distinguished by more than 100 tombs with ornate facades, carved from sandstone outcroppings on the outskirts of the city. The smallest is less than three metres tall, the largest more than 18. Most of the tombs were carved in groups, but this especially embellished monument is relatively isolated, which is why today it’s known as the Qasr al-Farid (the Lonely Castle). Here in this windswept desert the bustle of merchants and the caravans full of spices are long gone, but these hand-carved boulders rising abruptly out of the landscape remain as evidence of a time when all roads led to Hegra.

 

 

 

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