Ad Deir, or the Monastery, is one of Petra's many facades carved out of sandstone in Wadi Musa, Jordan. As visitors enter Petra from the winding gorge known as the Siq, they first behold the ...

Deep within Jordan’s desolate desert canyons ... apparently of Egyptian style.” Petra is home to more than 600 hypogea, tombs carved into the rocky walls of the valley. Many are simple burial ...

Experts conducted excavations under Al Khazneh, also known as the Treasury – an elaborate rock-cut tomb, carved out of a ...

imposing Al Khazneh in Petra, Jordan. Long before it appeared in Stephen Spielberg’s 1989 blockbuster Indiana Jones and the ...

Carved out of rock ... But there is a concern in Jordan that a campaign warning off tourists from Petra could be counterproductive by damaging a major income source, as well as depriving the ...