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The Treasury in Petra, Jordan, is a famous tourist site and features in an Indiana Jones movie. Now archaeologists say they've found a remarkable 12 complete skeletons in a hidden tomb beneath it.
CITY GUIDES: 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 ...
ERIC WESTERVELT, HOST: It's been hailed as a stunning discovery. A team of archaeologists have unearthed a hidden tomb in Jordan's ancient city of Petra.
In the thousands of years since the Nabataean Kingdom first carved an entire city, including the Treasury by hand in Petra, it has become a tourist attraction and was used as a film location in ...
CITY GUIDES: 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 ...
It is an elaborate rock-cut tomb, carved out of a sandstone rock face. It was built as a mausoleum and crypt for the Nabatean king Aretas IV (9 BC - AD 40) at Petra in Jordan.
Built over 2,000 years ago, the iconic desert city continues to mesmerize tourists and archaeologists alike. Ad Deir, or the Monastery, is one of Petra's many facades carved out of sandstone in ...
In 2003, they had discovered hidden tombs around the city’s ornate, famed Treasury structure, carved into Petra’s canyon walls in the first century B.C.