The Nabataeans built Petra more than 2000 years ago. Not much is known about the Nabataeans, who emerged in Arabia in the 4th century BCE. Originally nomads who spoke Arabic and later a form of ...

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Petra, the world-famous ancient settlement carved into the sandstone slabs of Jordan’s Ma’an Governorate, is thought to have been constructed by the Nabateans between the 7th and 4th century B.C.E.

One of the few entryways into Petra is a narrow passage, the Siq, at the end of which Petrans carved elaborate monuments into the soft rock. Lonely Planet Images "Donkey, horse or camel?" The question ...

Built over 2,000 years ago, the iconic desert city continues to mesmerize tourists and archaeologists alike. Ad Deir, or the Monastery, is one of Petra's many facades carved out of sandstone in Wadi ...

The flooding in Petra occurred suddenly, catching tourists at prominent sites such as the Treasury, one of the site's iconic tombs. Jordanian authorities evacuated nearly 1,800 tourists from the ...

San Francisco startup Petra says its new contactless thermal drilling robot can make steady progress through the hardest rock on Earth – stuff that would normally destroy drilling equipment – so ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Zurich Film Festival is honoring Swiss director Petra Volpe in LA on Monday 12 January with the festival’s Golden Eye Award for her film Late Shift. Volpe will be presented with the ...

"Petra" is the Greek word for "rock." But the Arabic term, al-madina al-ward ah (rose-colored city), far better evokes the beauty of this enigmatic site. Located in western Jordan, Petra was built in ...

When news broke this summer that the Petra Nova carbon capture power project was offline, advocates leapt to the defense of the Texas facility, one of the largest in the world. When news broke this ...