AlUla: Kulturalis

Jane Taylor is a writer and photographer who has specialized in the Middle East for over four decades. After an honors degree in Mediaeval History and Moral Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, she worked as a teacher, publisher, television researcher and then producer, including documentaries for the BBC, Granada and Yorkshire TV. Her first book, resulting from time spent in southern Africa, was Testament to the Bushmen (1984), co-authored with Laurens van der Post, who presented the TV series of the same name, which she produced. From 1989 to 2015 she made her home in Amman, Jordan. Her Middle East books include High Above Jordan (1989); and Petra and the Lost Kingdom of the Nabataeans (2001), the acclaimed illustrated history of the people who created both Petra and Hegra. Her photographs have appeared in many other books, magazines and campaigns, drawn from archives spanning the Middle East and beyond.

1. A Dance to the Music of Time: Earliest Arabia 2. A More Than Earthly Fragrance: Aromatics and the Origins of the Incense Road 3. The Oasis of Dadan: Dadanites, the Babylonian Interlude and Lihyanites 4. Hegra, the Petra of Arabia: The Nabataeans' Greatest Southern City 5–6. From Incense Road to Pilgrimage Route: Caravans and the Pilgrimage Era 7. Adventurers and Scholars: Rediscovery by the West and Modern Research