Conservation experts almost gave up when they first saw the severely damaged wall paintings they had come to rescue in the ancient city of Petra. Cloaked for centuries in grimy soot from Bedouin camp ...

The ancient city of Petra, which was carved into the desert cliffs of modern-day Jordan, might look inhospitably bone-dry today, but new archaeological evidence shows that its first-century ...

For nearly as long, archaeologists had been stymied by a maddeningly stubborn mystery. In 2003, they had discovered hidden tombs around the city’s ornate, famed Treasury structure, carved into Petra’s ...

PETRA, Jordan, June 10 (UPI) --With the help of satellites and drones, archaeologists have discovered a massive monumental structure "hiding in plain sight" -- buried beneath the sands of Petra, the ...