In the heart of Jordan, there is a cave city captivating ... reaching a height of 45 metres. It is also Petra's most famous temple, and has become emblematic of the city. But the Jordanian city ...

In the early 1800s, a Swiss explorer tricked his way into Petra ... a temple for the worship of the deified King Obodas I. It was used as a church in the Byzantine period. Deep within Jordan ...

How digital archaeologists are using drones and cutting-edge cameras to recreate the spectacular 2,000-year-old ruins in Jordan Susan ... The paths inside the Petra Archaeological Park were ...

In the 1989 film 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade', the Temple of the Sun is the stunning ... carved out of a sandstone rock face in Petra, Jordan. They found a 'previously unknown' tomb ...

The mysterious veil of the Treasury monument in Petra, Jordan, has been lifted once again ... outside toward the void by hand, Bates said. Inside were 12 human skeletons at their original burial ...

In Jordan’s extraordinary rose-red “Lost City” of Petra, I have just huffed up 700 zigzagging stone-carved steps to the ancient mountaintop High Place of Sacrifice with its sacred altar and ...

Petra is arguably Jordan's most famous national site ... large numbers of people to be at the site instead of at school or inside their homes”. But for Rukhia Al-Bdoul, a non-permitted souvenir ...

A local archaeological team obtained the rare permission to get inside ... general of Jordan's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities; and Fares Braizat, the chief commissioner of the Petra ...

Tending to his camels in Petra, Jordan’s spectacular archaeological ... selling drinks while sitting on woven rugs inside the Moon Cave near the famed Treasury site. Suleiman Farajat, head ...

Experts conducted excavations under Al Khazneh, also known as the Treasury – an elaborate rock-cut tomb, carved out of a sandstone rock face in Petra, Jordan ... been found inside tombs under ...