The climate crisis directly impacts cultural heritage in the Middle East and it will continue to affect historical monuments and sites in the coming decades.Two recent collections of studies authored ...

Petra is one of the most iconic destinations in the world. Even those who don't know anything about the country of Jordan have probably seen pictures of ...

AMMAN - A delegation from the US Congress visited Petra city on Tuesday to assess the progress of key development projects ...

Movies have a special way of transporting us to different worlds, whether they are fantastical or set in real-life cities. Many famous film locations become ...

This week, the Century Park Hotel in Amman hosted Building a Legacy: Best Practices in Architectural Conservation ...

Gulf Network The Jordan Tourism Board is unveiling an exciting new campaign that showcases short, idyllic getaways in the ...

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 ...

AMMAN - The ancient city of Petra saw a notable rise in visitors during the first two days of Eid Al Fitr, driven in part by the resumption of low-co ...

Archaeological excavations at Canada’s national parks, historic sites and marine conservation areas ensure the protection of the natural and cultural heritage of these special places and their ...

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 ...

In 2023, Visit Petra recorded 1.1 million visitors to Jordan’s most popular archaeological site; that dropped to 457,000 in 2024. I don’t need statistics to feel the downturn during my two ...

Petra, in southern Jordan, is a love letter to human civilisation from ... When Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt put it on the archaeological map in 1812, it was a ghost town, following ...