Once the capital city for an Arab tribe, the Nabateans, Petra was also a base during Hellenistic and Roman times ... You can ...

Where to stay, eat, drink and shop in Jordan’s rose-red ancient city - CITY GUIDES: With thousands of years of history carved ...

Deep within Jordan’s desolate desert ... Saladin defeats the Crusaders in 1187, Petra returns to Muslim hands. A German, Thetmar, writes of visiting in 1217. Later, the Mamluk sultan Baybars ...

A total of 18,000 tourists visited Petra last month, amongst them were 6,050 Jordanian tourists. According Petra, the numbers of tourists to Petra fell this year due to the political situation in ...

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Detailed modeling of this kind is at the leading edge of archaeological best practices, and according to Jordan’s Princess Dana Firas, the head of the Petra ... But visiting a place—breathing ...