Built over 2,000 years ago ... is one of Petra's many facades carved out of sandstone in Wadi Musa, Jordan. As visitors enter Petra from the winding gorge known as the Siq, they first behold ...

Though they occupied various areas of southern Jordan, Arabia ... It is unclear exactly when the Nabataeans built Petra, but ...

Located in western Jordan, Petra was built in the first century B.C. by an Arab tribe, the Nabateans, who made it the capital of a prosperous mercantile empire. High walls and surrounding ...

This part of Jordan is also religiously significant ... became Christianized as the Byzantine Empire, churches were built in Petra, some of them supplanting once-sacred tombs.

In the early 1800s, a Swiss explorer tricked his way into Petra, the ancient oasis whose location had been a closely guarded secret for centuries. Known as Ed Deir—the Monastery—this building ...