Built over 2,000 years ago, the iconic desert city continues to mesmerize tourists and archaeologists alike. Ad Deir, or the Monastery, is one of Petra's many facades carved out of sandstone in ...

Burckhardt knew that he had found a mysterious lost city, rumors of which had reached him on his desert travels. He was the first European to have entered Petra for many centuries. Swathed in Arab ...

Explore the ancient sandstone city of Petra and the mysterious Little Petra, remnants of an advanced civilization lost to time.#PetraJordan #MegalithicStructures #LostCivilization ...

Petra, in southern Jordan, is a love letter to human civilisation from a long-lost empire. The Nabataeans ... following centuries of abandonment. While much of the city is gone, many of its monumental ...

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 ...