Petra, the real star of Indiana Jones In 1989, Steven Spielberg made the 2,000-year-old city the setting for his blockbuster Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.Petra’s Treasury, carved out of ...

In the early 1800s, a Swiss explorer tricked his way into Petra, the ancient oasis whose ... perhaps the Nabataean king Aretas IV. Inside is a funerary chamber, free of any decorative details ...