Jordan has seen a decrease in the number of tourists visiting its famed ancient city of Petra and other sites since the Gaza ...

Petra is known as a stunning city which attracts tourists from all over the globe but there is now more than meets the eye of ...

Reinforcing its ongoing humanitarian commitment to the Palestinian people, Jordan on Sunday dispatched a new aid convoy to the Gaza Strip, consisting of 38 trucks loaded with vital food supplies. The ...

Since then, Petra’s fame has grown. UNESCO inscribed the city’s ruins as a World Heritage site in 1985, and the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade used Petra as a stage for some scenes.

Petra is home to more than 600 hypogea, tombs carved into the rocky walls of the valley. Many are simple burial chambers with loculi—niches in which to lay the dead—with no external decoration.

The Georgian Embassy expressed its gratitude to Jordan’s Ministry of Culture, the Jerash Festival’s Higher Committee, and the Petra Development and Tourism Region Authority for supporting the success ...

A tomb beneath Petra’s Treasury reveals 12 skeletons and 2,000-year-old artifacts. Archaeologists call it a rare find, ...

Petra, which 2,000 years ago was on the thriving caravan trade route for frankincense and spices, is a UNESCO World Heritage site.