Exploring Ancient Ruins: A Historical Quest
Exploring Ancient Ruins: A Historical Quest – Camels in the doorway of the Treasury in Petra, Jordan, show the enormous size of the ancient building’s entrance. This towering structure was carved into the sandstone hillside by the Nabataeans in the second century AD and likely began life as a temple.
The ‘Lost City’ Still Has Secrets to Uncover: Thousands of years ago, the now abandoned city of Petra thrived.
Exploring Ancient Ruins: A Historical Quest
Carved directly into vibrant red, white, pink and sandstone cliff faces, the prehistoric Jordanian city of Petra was ‘lost’ to the Western world for hundreds of years.
Exploring The Roman Ruins Of Jordan’s Jerash
Located amid rugged desert canyons and mountains in what is now the southwestern corner of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Petra was once a thriving trading center and the capital of the Nabataean Empire between 400 BC. and 106 AD.
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