Jordan. As visitors enter Petra from the winding gorge known as the Siq, they first behold the towering edifice of Al Khazna, or the Treasury, carved from rosy-hued sandstone. For many tourists ...

Deep within Jordan’s desolate desert canyons ... the elaborate sandstone pillars of the Treasury have greeted arrivals to Petra. Photograph by Luis Marden The Swiss explorer had to manage ...

About 2,000 years ago, the powerful ancient kingdom of the Nabataeans hand-carved a city into the sandstone cliffs of Petra, Jordan ... since become known as the Treasury. Since then ...

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For hundreds of years, the 2,300-year-old city of Petra, Jordan was largely abandoned ... “A lot of travelers prioritize and focus on the Treasury, but many of the beautiful viewpoints that ...