When Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt put it on the archaeological map in 1812 ... for the world to learn of Petra, since the city is largely concealed deep inside a network of gorges ...

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 ...