The “buildings” are punched into ... and according to Jordan’s Princess Dana Firas, the head of the Petra National Trust, the data will help identify and measure the site’s deterioration ...

This part of Jordan is also religiously significant ... with Hellenistic and Byzantine features. Many of Petra's surviving rock-cut buildings, for instance, have columns despite the fact that ...

Petra, in southern Jordan, is a love letter to human civilisation from a ... It’s a powerful testament to their construction abilities that the buildings most important to the Nabataeans withstood the ...

Deep within Jordan’s desolate desert canyons and ... A.D. 363 Now part of the Byzantine Empire, several of Petra’s buildings are used as churches. An earthquake seriously damages many ...

Located in western Jordan, Petra was built in the first ... One of the first sights is Petra's most recognizable building, Al Khazneh, commonly called "the Treasury" (although it is, in fact ...

From Petra to Wadi Rum, Jordan’s seven Unesco sites await explorers ... known for its grand limestone buildings. Quseir Amra: An 8th-century Umayyad fortress adorned with rare frescoes, offering ...