For many tourists, the visit to the ancient city in southwest Jordan ends here ... carved into the mountains of ancient Petra. The majority of archaeological remains in Petra are tombs, Al ...

Petra, carved into the rose-red cliffs of Jordan, continues to reveal its secrets. Early mapping techniques unveiled in 2016 revealed the potential ruins of a vast structure hidden beneath the sands, ...

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 National Trust, the data will help ...

At the end of the Siq-a narrow, winding gorge through ruby-red sandstone in southwestern Jordan-lies one of the most jaw-dropping sights in archaeology: an open plaza dominated by Al-Khazneh, an ...

She took up archaeology with gusto ... among the most curious remains of ancient art." Petra has lately fulfilled that prophesy. It is now Jordan's top tourist destination, attracting hundreds ...

Petra, in southern Jordan, is a love letter to human civilisation from ... When Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt put ...

Kathleen Deagan, a professor of archaeology at the University of ... JordanA person standing in the doorway of the Monastery at Petra, Jordan, shows the enormity of the ancient building's entrance.

Chairman of the Petra Development and Tourism Region Authority (PDTRA) Fares Braizat has met with a “high-level” media delegation from Poland as part of efforts to promote Petra as a global tourist ...

Back at the entrance gate, across from Petra Visitor Center, you’ll find the Petra Museum, a modern facility which opened in 2019 to exhibit the archaeological ... down well in Jordan and ...