The reason they look so similar and there is so many of them is because there were actually contracting companies who built them.

They weren't limited to the royalty, instead any Nabatean who could afford one had one commissioned for them and their family as a hereditary tomb.

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A gorgon head with snakes on the facade above the tomb’s entrance

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Before Jesus, Arabs in Elusa and Petra worshipped another deity born of a virgin.

The Birth of Dhushara as reported by Epiphanius 🧡

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