Perry has spent a lot of time studying the layout of monuments in Petra for clues as to whether the city was laid out organically, or – as Belmonte suggest – if it was planned. “The tombs ...

From atop Umm al-Biyara, a site on Petra’s highest mountain containing ruins that date to the Iron Age, visitors can view the main street crossing the city, the layout of temples and the bustle ...

Only in 1963 had floods at Petra's main entrance, the Siq, killed 22 visitors after waters pounded down on the valleys below. Archaeological analysis of the layout of the city has suggested that ...

The flooding in Petra occurred suddenly, catching tourists at prominent sites such as the Treasury, one of the site's iconic tombs. Jordanian authorities evacuated nearly 1,800 tourists from the ...

AMMAN — In the heart of the ancient Petra, a preliminary survey and excavation of the ... "We used ground-penetrating radar in 2001 which provided information about the layout of the garden terrace.