Petra is known as a stunning city which attracts tourists from all over the globe but there is now more than meets the eye of ...

The Georgian Embassy expressed its gratitude to Jordan’s Ministry of Culture, the Jerash Festival’s Higher Committee, and the Petra Development and Tourism Region Authority for supporting the success ...

Archaeologists Stunned to Find Secret 2,000-Year-Old Tomb Underneath the Treasury Building in Petra The towering cliffs of ...

Since then, Petra’s fame has grown. UNESCO inscribed the city’s ruins as a World Heritage site in 1985, and the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade used Petra as a stage for some scenes.

Petra is home to more than 600 hypogea, tombs carved into the rocky walls of the valley. Many are simple burial chambers with loculi—niches in which to lay the dead—with no external decoration.

A tomb beneath Petra’s Treasury reveals 12 skeletons and 2,000-year-old artifacts. Archaeologists call it a rare find, ...

The Jordanian government is forcibly evicting the Bedul, a group of Bedouins from Petra, in clear violation of their economic ...

Petra, which 2,000 years ago was on the thriving caravan trade route for frankincense and spices, is a UNESCO World Heritage site.

It was 1983 and Petra was one of the biggest and best “Christian rock” bands in the world. That meant that they sold more records and tickets than about ten other groups, but it was impressive ...