Elusa
This Nabataean city can only be reached with a four-wheel drive. It is covered in sand, but has a very impressive church, and a theater, as well as inscriptions.

Two thousand years ago the city of Elusa welcomed merchants and traders traveling along the Spice Route between India and the Arabian Peninsula and Europe. In later years pilgrims stopped at Elusa in the long journey from Sinai to Jerusalem. The biggest city between Petra and Gaza, Elusa was the capital of the Negev for five hundred years until the eighth century CE, when it was abandoned.

 Bibliography

Gibson, Dan, The Nabataeans, Builders of Petra, CanBooks, Saskatchewan, Canada 2002

Gibson, Dan, The Nabataean Collection, CanBooks, Saskatchewan, Canada, 2003

Glueck, Nelson, Rivers in the Desert, A history of the Negev, The Norton Library, W. W. Norton & Company Inc, New York, 1959, 1968

Levy, Udi, The Lost Civilization of Petra, Bath Press Color Books, Glasgow, 1999