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Petra travel guide: Where to stay, eat, drink and shop in Jordan’s rose-red ancient city
With thousands of years of history carved into the rocks, the Rose City’s architectural beauty and links to a forgotten past are as beguiling as ever, says Paul Stafford ...
Jordan News Agency (Petra) on MSN3d
Princess Dana Firas visits Umm Jimal as part of Chinese documentary
HH Princess Dana Firas, President of the Petra National Trust (PNT) and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Cultural Heritage, visited the Umm Jimal archaeological site on Sunday evening, accompanied by HH ...
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2,000-year-old tomb holding 12 skeletons found at Petra where 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade' was filmed
The Nabataeans flourished in southern Jordan around 2,000 years ago. Caravan routes traveled through their kingdom and Petra became ... excavation and produced a documentary about it, which ...
Smithsonian Magazine6y
Zooming In on Petra
Detailed modeling of this kind is at the leading edge of archaeological best practices, and according to Jordan’s Princess Dana Firas, the head of the Petra National Trust, the data will help ...