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Jack Cross -Editing
Pictures National Geographic
Music: My Beautiful Home Land
The ancient city of Petra is one of Jordan's national treasures.
Petra is the legacy of the Nabateans, an industrious Arab people
who settled in southern Jordan more than 2000 years ago.
Admired then for its refined culture, massive architecture and
ingenious complex of dams and water channels, Petra is now a
UNESCO world heritage site. Petra's most famous monument,
the Treasury, appears dramatically at the end of the siq. Used in
the final sequence of the film "Indiana Jones and the Last
Crusade", the towering facade of the Treasury is only one of
myriad archaeological wonders to be explored at Petra. Various
walks and climbs reveal literally hundreds of buildings, tombs,
baths, funerary halls, temples, arched gateways, colonnaded
streets and haunting rock drawings - as well as a 3000 seat open
air amphitheatre circa and a gigantic first century Monastery.
Petral New Seven Wonders of the World.
Petra, Jordan was lost to
the Western World from
about the 14th century
until the early 19th
century
Petra's glory days were in
the century before Christ's
birth. When Rome
annexed it in the second
century, Petra had about
30,000 residents.
Petra, where breathtaking architecture is
carved into rosecolored sandstone cliffs
Following Petra's decline a
few centuries after Christ's
birth, most of its buildings
were buried by sand which
sheltered the carvings over
the centuries. Petra was
rediscovered in 1812.
Petra was one of the most easy to
defend cities of the ancient
world.
Petra's temples, tombs, theaters
and other buildings are scattered
over 400 square miles.
The Nabataeans
carved channels into
the sides of the cliffs.
Modern engineers
say the Nabataens
were "absolute
geniuses" at
The Nabataeans carved
channels into the sides of the
cliffs. Modern engineers say the
Nabataens were : "absolute
geniuses" at controlling
rainwater to prevent flooding
and to avoid shortages in times
of drought.
"The Treasury," the first
facade you see as you enter
Petra, is world famous
because of the Indiana Jones
"The Last Crusade" movie.
Carved into the cliff, "The
Treasury" is so-named
because at the top of the
enormous structure is a
carved, stone object that
looks like an urn. According
to legend, the urn contains
treasure. Chips on the
inaccessible urn are the
results of unsuccessful
attempts to break it with
bullets and stones.
3,000 Seat
Theatre
Jack Cross
The Treasures of Petral
Marble Vase with
Panther shaped handles
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