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 intriguing list of clues about its ...

In the early 1800s, a Swiss explorer tricked his way into Petra, the ancient oasis whose location had been a closely guarded secret for centuries. Known as Ed Deir—the Monastery—this building ...

British archaeologists recently made a discovery that sounds like something straight out of an Indiana Jones movie: a secret ...

Now, however, archaeologists are discovering that ancient Petra was a sprawling city of lush gardens and ... from earthquakes and neglect. The soft stone cliffs made it possible to hollow out ...

The ancient city of Petra in modern-day Jordan prospered for ... Petra takes its name from the Greek πέτρα (pétra), which ...

Long after you’ve left you will find grit from Petra’s red sandstone in the ... relive the startling moment you first saw this ancient stone city rising out of the desert floor; you will ...

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.

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 ...

From the awe-inspiring Petra — an ancient Nabataean city carved into red sandstone ... Umm Al-Jimal: A captivating basalt stone town showcasing nearly 2,000 years of Nabataean, Roman, Byzantine ...