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It’s at this point that I see my first tomb – a cavernous hole cut into the sheer rock face. My heart skips a beat as I realise we have now reached Petra, the historic city in southern Jordan.

In 2004, painter Paul Reid travelled to Italy, Turkey and Jordan with Charles, and in Petra he focused on a man standing by the portico of Al-Khazneh, a rock-cut tomb in the historic city.

Petra sprawls and snakes through the mountains, with most of its significant features collected in a flat valley. Royal tombs line one side of the valley; religious sites line the other.

Where to stay, eat, drink and shop in Jordan’s rose-red ancient city - CITY GUIDES: With thousands of years of history carved into the rocks, the Rose City’s architectural beauty and links to a ...

Petra, in southern Jordan, is a love letter to human civilisation from a long-lost empire. The Nabataeans, a nomadic Arabic people, began chiselling away at the natural sandstone surroundings ...

Getting there: Royal Jordanian Airlines (www.rja.com.jo) has daily flights connecting several North American cities to Amman, Jordan's capital.