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Petra Photo in Jordan

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

The breathtaking city of Petra was a vibrant trading hub that vanished from most maps in the seventh century A.D. It lay beneath a thousand years of dust and debris when, in 1812, a Swiss scholar disguised as a Bedouin trader identified the ruins as the ancient Nabataean capital.
Spread throughout a series of remote desert [...]

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“Lost City” of Petra Still Has Secrets to Reveal – jordan

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

By Mati Milstein from : nationalgeographic.com

Literally carved directly into vibrant red, white, pink, and sandstone cliff faces, the prehistoric Jordanian city of Petra was “lost” to the Western world for hundreds of years.

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El-Deir monastery in Petra, Jordan Photograph by Martin Gray

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