The majority of archaeological remains in Petra are tombs, Al-Salameen says. The Nabataeans must have paid a lot of attention to the afterlife, he says. “They looked at their life as a short ...

A UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the new seven wonders of the world, Petra is a giant metropolis of tombs, monuments, and other elaborate religious structures directly carved into sandstone ...

Creasman said the architecture of the buried tomb is the “most exciting” aspect of the discovery, because its “construction ...

Karen Shrode of Columbus took this photo of the Treasury, one of the rock-cut tombs in Petra, Jordan, on Feb. 25.