Petra remained a secret only known to a few ... It is a mausoleum, and archeological research found three royal tombs from the First Century BC. It is worth noting that visitors can go inside ...

and the imposing Royal Tombs. Petra is much more than just an open-air museum; it is the testimony of a civilisation that was able to tame the desert. The Nabataeans developed a complex hydraulic ...

A UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the new seven wonders of the world, Petra is a giant metropolis of tombs, monuments, and other elaborate religious structures directly carved into sandstone ...

The majority of archaeological remains in Petra are tombs, Al-Salameen says. The Nabataeans must have paid a lot of attention to the afterlife, he says. “They looked at their life as a short ...