For many tourists, the visit to the ancient city in southwest Jordan ends here. But Petra has much more to offer, including more than 600 stone facades and an intriguing list of clues about its ...

As one of the oldest cities in the world, Petra has attracted over a million visitors in recent years. As one seven wonders of the modern world, it is a must for any trip to Jordan. Carved into ...

From magnificent megacities to grand architectural ensembles, many great cities have disappeared from the world map for ...

Visiting Petra On A Tour From Amman We booked our tour of Petra with Abraham Tours – a company which offers group tours. generally leave from Israel, but they also consider special Jordan pickups too.

Buttu, who regularly travels to the city of Ramallah ... When Google Maps leads her into settlements, Buttu says she speaks in English in the hopes of passing as a lost foreigner.

They are making sense of archives too vast for humans to read, filling in missing and unreadable characters and decoding rare and lost languages ... papyri from Petra, Jordan, that were burnt ...

Move over Rome, and forget about the Egyptian Pharaohs – Petra’s Nabatean trading empire was the real power in the ancient world! How many of these fun facts about Petra do you already know? Petra is ...

New findings at Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets and monumental ruins, reveal insights into Middle Bronze Age life and ...

More than 8,600 structures were lost in the Eaton Fire. Officials said about 70% of damage inspections have been completed as of Thursday afternoon. The following map is provided by L.A. County ...

Travellers’ accounts speak about more than 50 churches and convents, and 3,500 houses — the Portuguese occupied only about a quarter of them — that formed the city’s prominent landmarks.

and even if scientists can't get there on the ground for another hundred years because there are too many cities for us to all go to and map in person, that moment is coming when lost Maya City ...