The Great Temple included a 600-seat theater ... When is the best time to visit Petra, Jordan? The best time to visit Jordan is during the Spring and Autumn months, which in Jordan is March ...

Deep within Jordan’s desolate desert ... In reality, this building, the only example at Petra of a monument not sculpted out of rock, is a large temple. A tetrastyle structure (with four columns ...

The combination of Hellenistic architecture with traditional Nabataean rock-cut temple/tombs can be seen ... The city center is part of Jordan’s Petra Archaeological Park, which covers 264,000 ...

Another, the once free-standing Great Temple—which probably ... and according to Jordan’s Princess Dana Firas, the head of the Petra National Trust, the data will help identify and measure ...

It’s no wonder that Petra remains Jordan’s top tourist attraction and one of the most revered of the World Heritage sites. Petra is a three-hour drive from Amman and two hours from the Red Sea ...

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Violent floods have ripped through the ancient city of Petra in southern Jordan, triggering the evacuation ... Petra's ancient rock-cut Nabatean temple dubbed "the Treasury", the best-known ...

About 2,000 years ago, the powerful ancient kingdom of the Nabataeans hand-carved a city into the sandstone cliffs of Petra, Jordan. At its center: an imposing, 12-column structure that has since ...