Hidden in Plain Sight This engraving shows Johann Ludwig Burckhardt disguised in Muslim garb, as he might have looked during his search for Petra. Photograph by Art Archive Much later, a new wave ...

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 ...

Petra, once a thriving political, cultural, and economic centre in the ancient world, holds a significant place in the history of the Middle East. Established by the Nabateans, an indigenous ...

Though the Nabataeans settled permanently in Petra, for much of their history they were a nomadic Bedouin people who traveled the Arabian Desert. Why, exactly, they chose to settle permanently in ...