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Petra was the focus of an American PBS Nova special, "Petra: Lost City of Stone", [109] which premiered in the US and Europe in February 2015. Petra is central to Netflix's first Arabic original series Jinn, which is a young adult supernatural drama about the djinn in the ancient city of Petra. They must try and stop the demons from destroying ...
Sela (Hebrew: סֶּלַע, Selaʿ, "rock"; Arabic: السلع, es-Sela‛; Greek: πέτρα, 'Petra'; Latin: petra) [1] is a geographical name encountered several times in the Hebrew Bible, and applicable to a variety of locations. [2] One site by this name is placed by the Second Book of Kings in Edom. [2]
Al-Khazneh The first glimpse of Petra's Treasury (Al-Khazneh) upon exiting the Siq. Al-Khazneh (Arabic: الخزنة; IPA:, "The Treasury"), A.K.A. Khazneh el-Far'oun (treasury of the pharaoh), is one of the most elaborate rock-cut tombs in Petra, a city of the Nabatean Kingdom inhabited by the Arabs in ancient times.
Arabia Petraea or Petrea, also known as Rome's Arabian Province [1] or simply Arabia, was a frontier province of the Roman Empire beginning in the 2nd century. It consisted of the former Nabataean Kingdom in the southern Levant, the Sinai Peninsula, and the northwestern Arabian Peninsula.
Trading routes of the ancient Middle East, when Petra was the last stop for caravans carrying spices before being shipped to European markets through the Port of Gaza. The literate Nabataeans left no lengthy historical texts. However, thousands of inscriptions have been found in their settlements, including graffiti and on minted coins. [2]
The Treasury, as seen from as-Siq, right before the passage ends A walk down the Siq, 2018 A niche at the entrance of al-Siq. The Siq (Arabic: السيق, transliterated al-Sīq, transcribed as-Sīq, [a] literally 'the Shaft') is the main entrance to the ancient Nabatean city of Petra in southern Jordan.
The "Great Temple" occupied a prime spot in ancient Petra: from its ruins one can now see the Siq to the Southeast, the Qasr al-Bint to the West, and the Lower Market/Petra Pool Complex to the East. It is unclear whether the complex was a religious or administrative building, and – if it was indeed religious – how exactly it functioned or ...
Map showing the hydraulic network of Petra. Water, its hydrology and hydraulics were the main engines of the city of Petra; the city is built in a valley surrounded by mountains, crossed by the wadi Musa, a torrent flowing from east to west, which divides the city in two and constitutes its backbone.