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PETRA Jordan The rose City of Nabateans

Petra is an archaeological marvel carved into sandstone as much as 2500 years ago and one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. Lost to the sands of time, it was generally unknown to the wider modern world until a Swiss explorer, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, stumbled upon the lost city, in 1812. The “Rose City” is carved into rose-colored sandstone and was a famed marvel even back in the years before Christ due to its rock-cut architecture and water systems. Situated between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea and inhabited since prehistoric times, the rock-cut capital city of the Nabateans, became during Hellenistic and Roman times a major caravan centre for the incense of Arabia, the silks of China and the spices of India, a crossroads between Arabia, Egypt and Syria-Phoenicia. Petra is half-built, half-carved into the rock, and is surrounded by mountains riddled with passages and gorges. An ingenious water management system allowed extensive settlement of an essentially arid area during the Nabataean, Roman and Byzantine periods. It is one of the world's richest and largest archaeological sites set in a dominating red sandstone landscape. Petra is also famous for its iconic role in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, where the Treasury (Al-Khazneh) and its dramatic entrance, the Siq, served as the hidden "Canyon of the Crescent Moon" and the Grail Temple. Music : Harry Gregson-Williams