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In the south-west of Jordan lies the Wadi Rum desert, or Moon valley desert in Arabic, with a size of about 286 mi². Inhabited by the Nabateans between 1,000 BCE and 1,000 CE (they left there many petroglyphs), this desert has seen British-allied Bedouins and the famous T. E. Lawrence against the Ottoman empire. The huge sandstone cliffs follow one another, each with its characteristic color, from ocher to orange, and the sands surrounding them also change color depending on their proximity with them.