Experts conducted excavations under Al Khazneh, also known as the Treasury – an elaborate rock-cut tomb, carved out of a sandstone rock face in Petra, Jordan. They found a 'previously unknown ...

The majority of archaeological remains in Petra are tombs, Al-Salameen says. The Nabataeans must have paid a lot of attention to the afterlife, he says. “They looked at their life as a short ...

The facades were all that remained when 19th-century travelers arrived here and concluded that Petra was an eerie and puzzling city of tombs. Now, however, archaeologists are discovering that ...

At its peak, 2,000 years ago, Petra was home to as many as 30,000 people, full of temples, theaters, gardens, tombs, villas, Roman baths, and the camel caravans and marketplace bustle befitting ...

A UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the new seven wonders of the world, Petra is a giant metropolis of tombs, monuments, and other elaborate religious structures directly carved into sandstone ...

Built by the Nabataeans around the 4th century BCE, Petra includes temples, tombs, and a hydraulic system, all carved directly into the sandstone mountains which give the city its unique atmosphere.

It is mostly famous for its spectacular Nabataean ruins, monumental tombs from an abandoned necropolis. Video by Ana González and Frederick Bernas At their peak, they were akin to royalty.