Petra is in Jordan which is a city carved into pink stone cliffs. It’s an ancient wonder and a popular tourist site today.

PETRA — Famous for its rose-coloured architecture carved into sandstone cliffs, the ancient Nabataean city of Petra has drawn travellers for centuries. Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in ...

About 2,000 years ago, the powerful ancient kingdom of the Nabataeans hand-carved a city into the sandstone cliffs of Petra, Jordan. At its center: an imposing, 12-column structure that has since ...

This wasn’t an average Stone Age settlement. Excavators had found a Viking Age burial ground. “When we did the preliminary excavation in May 2017,” Petra Nordin, the project leader ...

But on a recent visit to Petra, a city carved from rose-coloured rock and Jordan’s most-visited tourist attraction, businesses were boarded up. “There are no revenues, it’s all losses,” Al ...

Deep in the Jordanian desert, the ancient stone city of Petra has a magical quality. Carved out of pink sandstone rock, and hidden for centuries until it was rediscovered by a Swiss explorer, it’s ...

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