For many tourists, the visit to the ancient city in southwest Jordan ends here. But Petra has much more to offer, including more than 600 stone facades and an intriguing list of clues about its ...

In the early 1800s, a Swiss explorer tricked his way into Petra, the ancient oasis whose location had been a closely guarded secret for centuries. Known as Ed Deir—the Monastery—this building ...

Petra's humidity and seasonal floods means some ... They would have been Nabataeans, the ancient Arab people who inhabited northern Arabia and the southern Levant. During its peak around the ...

Explore Asia's ancient cities, including Varanasi, Xi'an, Kyoto, Angkor, Bagan, Kathmandu, Petra, and Lhasa. Discover their ...

Varanasi is in India, it is one of the world’s oldest cities known for its ancient Hindu culture and enormous temples. Bagan, ...

The newly discovered tomb could now be home to the largest collection of ancient human skeletons found buried in one place within Petra. The archaeologists are now excited to study the tomb and ...

This was based on their similarity to reliefs at Jordan's famous ancient city of Petra. But a fresh study puts the camels at between 7,000-8,000 old. Precisely ageing rock sculptures is a ...