Lost City of Petra in Jordan still has secrets

By asad russel -

The lost city of Petra:
Into vibrant red, white, pink and cliff faces of sandstones directly carved literally, for hundreds of years to the western world the prehistoric Jordanian city of Petra was lost. The southwestern corner of the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan in the mountains and desert canyons is now located amid rugged. Between the 400 BC and 106 AD Petra was the capital of Nabataean empire and once was a thriving center of trading.

For centuries in near ruins the city sat empty. In Bedouin costume a European traveler disguise himself which did only on the early of 1800s and the mysterious locale was infiltrated. UNESCO announced the Petra Archaeological site as the World Heritage Site in 1985, and one of the new Seven Wonders of the World it was named in 2007.
Location of Indiana Jones:
In Petra from the Hollywood blockbuster Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade several scenes and many other movies filmed here. On to the eastern entrance of Petra was modeled the movie’s fictional Canyon of the Crescent Moon, a sandstone slot canyon which height is 250 feet and known as the Siq to Al Khazneh (the Treasury) directly that leads, in the Petra’s dozens of breathtaking features perhaps the most stunning.

The climactic final scene in the film, from the Siq burst forth actors Harrison Ford and Sean Connery and into the labyrinths of the treasury walk deep to find the Holy Grail in their quest. But when Indy came to Petra bowed to Hollywood fiction the archaeological fact as well. In reality more than a façade the Treasury is nothing with a small hall relatively as a royal tomb which once used.

 Haifa University archaeologist Ronny Reich said, “Anything in Indiana Jones is accurate you cannot really say that”. “If one of the responsibilities of Israeli archaeologist is to chase down the Nazis I once was asked in the United State. I told them that, ‘Now not any more, we just chase down the pretty women now’”.

Above the entrance of the Treasury a giant urn carved, bears hundreds of gunshots marks. Here living in the Bedouin tribesmen and it says that the damage among the ruins was caused to open fire with rifles of the local men, thought to be inside the urn (made of solid stone actually) seeking the loot. Within Petra sites there are dozens of tombs and other constructed and carved structures.
Advanced Society of Petra:
A vast tract of the Middle East from Israel and Jordan in the modern day into the northern Arabian Peninsula was controlled by the Nabataeans into the Roman Empire before they were conquered and absorbed. Throughout this are the innovative network of storage, water capture, irrigation and transport of there are remains.

In Petra since 1979 who has been excavating Al-Muheisen and in the Nabataean period specializes says, dating back to the fourth centuries BC any archaeological evidence no one has yet found. Only to the second and first centuries BC thus far date back the earliest findings. In Petra in December 1993 near the Winged Lion Temple in an excavated church were discovered numerous scrolls in Greek which dating to the Byzantine period.
Short preview:
According to the Jordan Tourism Board about 629,864 visitors per year visit city of Petra. There are 500 tombs, temples and other monuments here which were carved in fine details. Thousands of years ago this city was famous for spice and silk trade route and reflects a mix cultural influences from the Arabs, Egyptians, Romans, Greek and Phoenicians. In the city tombs varying blends of Nabataean and Greco-Roman Architectural styles by thieves which were looted and thus their treasure lost.
    
 

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