For many tourists, the visit to the ancient ... city, which many Westerners had come to believe was a myth. Since then, Petra’s fame has grown. UNESCO inscribed the city’s ruins as a World ...

In the early 1800s, a Swiss explorer tricked his way into Petra, the ancient oasis ... scholar of the Arab world, Burckhardt knew that he had found a mysterious lost city, rumors of which had ...

You’ll get it soon enough when you get into the heart of the city. A place like Petra deserves ... and around the world, was left to the desert dust. It wasn’t completely lost though, for ...

Heavy rains struck southern Jordan on Sunday afternoon, triggering flash floods that poured into Petra’s narrow rock-carved passageways.

Inhabited since prehistoric times, this Nabataean caravan-city ... Petra is half-built, half-carved into the rock, and is surrounded by mountains riddled with passages and gorges. It is one of the ...

For some time you will close your eyes and still be able to relive the startling moment you first saw this ancient ... city that Petra once had been, a bustling capital, where lives were lived and ...

Desert ruins have a special charm for adventure travelers, providing an insight into ancient civilizations, and the secrets ...

Jordanian authorities evacuated hundreds of tourists from the ancient city of Petra on Sunday after heavy rains caused flash ...

Petra, in southern Jordan, is a love letter to human civilisation from a long-lost empire ... reason it took so long for the world to learn of Petra, since the city is largely concealed deep ...