The Danqur al-Khazneh, the Treasury (al-Khazneh), Petra, Jordan.
Sunrise 2, second day.
Petra is known as the Rose-Red City for the colour of the rocks from which Petra is carved.
The Al-Khazneh (building that appears in "Indiana Jones"), for example, is a work of century 1 a.C .: made like real mausoleum.
Its façade, of Hellenistic inspiration, impresses by the dimensions: it is 43 meters of height by 30 of width.
At the top of one of the mountains surrounding Petra is another work of art: the Ad-Deir, another mausoleum, but which was used in the 5th century AD as a Byzantine church.
To visit it, you have to face 800 steps that lead to the top.
Petra was a powerful city. The Nabataeans put her on the route of the caravans that crossed the Arabian peninsula towards the Mediterranean or the Red Sea. They have developed irrigation systems and built dams to store rainwater that falls from time to time into the desert. In its peak, the place had 30 thousand inhabitants.
The Danqur al-Khazneh, the Treasury (al-Khazneh), Petra, Jordan.
Sunrise 2, second day.
Petra is known as the Rose-Red City for the colour of the rocks from which Petra is carved.
The Al-Khazneh (building that appears in "Indiana Jones"), for example, is a work of century 1 a.C .: made like real mausoleum.
Its façade, of Hellenistic inspiration, impresses by the dimensions: it is 43 meters of height by 30 of width.
At the top of one of the mountains surrounding Petra is another work of art: the Ad-Deir, another mausoleum, but which was used in the 5th century AD as a Byzantine church.
To visit it, you have to face 800 steps that lead to the top.
Petra was a powerful city. The Nabataeans put her on the route of the caravans that crossed the Arabian peninsula towards the Mediterranean or the Red Sea. They have developed irrigation systems and built dams to store rainwater that falls from time to time into the desert. In its peak, the place had 30 thousand inhabitants.