In this episode our hosts Houston and Oban examine the lost civilization of the Nabataeans. The people famed for their desert capital Petra. Where did the Nabataean Arabs come from? How did they interact with their Jewish neighbours? How does their story tie in with the nativity, the birth of Jesus of Nazareth? All these questions and more are explored in this episode of The 1001 Arabian Knights!

In this episode our hosts Houston and Oban examine the pre-Islamic history of Yemen. How were the ancient Yemenite kingdoms organized? How were they related to the Arabs to their north? What was their relationship to the great powers of the age, especially Rome? All these questions and more are explored in this episode of The 1001 Arabian Knights!

In this episode our hosts Houston and Oban seek to explore the stage on which the Arabs first entered the world. To bridge the gap between prehistory and the emergence of the Arabs as a distinct people. Where do our legends of "The Great Flood" come from? What great civilizations dominated the ancient middle east? Who was the first Arab in recorded history? All this and more will be answered in this episode of the 1001 Arabian Knights!