Exactly 200 years ago this month, the ancient city of Petra, Jordan, was rediscovered by Swiss explorer Jean Louis Burckhardt. Exactly 200 years ago this month, 27-year-old Swiss explorer Jean Louis ...

Conservation experts almost gave up when they first saw the severely damaged wall paintings they had come to rescue in the ancient city of Petra. Cloaked for centuries in grimy soot from Bedouin camp ...

In the 1989 film 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade', the Temple of the Sun is the stunning Middle Eastern shrine that houses the Holy Grail. Now, in a case of 'history imitating art', human remains ...

Petra, the world-famous ancient settlement carved into the sandstone slabs of Jordan’s Ma’an Governorate, is thought to have been constructed by the Nabateans between the 7th and 4th century B.C.E.

Petra, Mar. 23 (Petra)-- The Petra Archaeological Park recorded a solid influx of visitors during the first three days of the Eid al-Fitr holiday, welcoming a total of 2,295 tourists of various ...

With his sixth feature, 'Petra,' Spanish Cannes regular Jaime Rosales delivers his most accessible film to date, an intense damaged-family drama set on a country estate. By Jonathan Holland Jaime ...