Known as Ed Deir—the Monastery—this building was a temple for ... to the mysterious Petra, he realized, with growing excitement, that he might be near the “lost” city itself.

The excavation, led by Dr. Pearce Paul Creasman, executive director of the American Research Center, took place beneath the ...

The treasures found in the "lost city" of Tanis ... but likely began as a temple. Photograph by Martin Gray Tanis was found largely as it was abandoned, so the city is home to many archaeological ...

Historians already knew about its existence thanks to nearly 1.2 miles of preserved buildings, but the rest of the city was lost ... temple was build by Nabataeans, who also built the city of ...