carved from rosy-hued sandstone. For many tourists, the visit to the ancient city in southwest Jordan ends here. But Petra has much more to offer, including more than 600 stone facades and an ...

After the Roman Empire annexed the city in the early second century ... at all but possesses the only intricately carved interior at Petra, with stone benches and walls lined with fluted half ...

One of the few entryways into Petra is a narrow ... when the Nabatean people carved the most impressive of their monumental structures directly into the soft red stone. The facades were all ...

Deep within Jordan’s desolate desert canyons and rugged mountains lies an ancient treasure, the stone city ... carved into sandstone cliffs. Believed to have been settled as early as 9000 B.C ...

Built by the Nabataeans around the 4th century BCE, Petra includes temples, tombs, and a hydraulic system, all carved directly into the sandstone mountains which give the city its unique atmosphere.

Petra is one of the most iconic destinations in the world. Even those who don't know anything about the country of Jordan have probably seen pictures of ...

For centuries, members of the B’doul Bedouin tribe lived in the caves around the ancient city of Petra, Jordan. Then, in the 1980s, the government forced the tribe to move in the name of preserving ...

There’s a reason it took so long for the world to learn of Petra, since the city is largely concealed ... the whole structure is carved directly into the cliff. As with much of the site, there ...

Petra, in southern Jordan ... While much of the city is gone, many of its monumental structures remain, carved straight into the cliffs. It’s a powerful testament to their construction abilities ...