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Petra was the focus of an American PBS Nova special, "Petra: Lost City of Stone", [110] 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 ...
The deity to whom the Qasr al Bint was dedicated has been a source of scholarly debate. The temple faces north towards a sacrificial altar that was dedicated to Dushara, the main Nabataean deity, and due to this spatial connection it has been suggested by some scholars that it was also Dushara who was worshiped at the Qasr al-bint.
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.
Previously, Woods wrote on X, "I do not know at this moment if our home is still standing, but sadly, houses on our little street are not." Woods detailed his family's harrowing evacuation during ...
It is the second most commonly visited monument in Petra, after the Khazneh or "Treasury". [ 3 ] The huge façade, the inner chamber and the other structures next to it or in the wider area around the Deir probably originally served a complex religious purpose, and was possibly repurposed as a church in the Byzantine period.
Standing next to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump proposed at a Tuesday night news conference to turn the enclave into an "international, unbelievable place" filled with "the world ...
2,000 years later, ancient Roman concrete still stands — and experts finally know why 500-year-old stone quarry used by Inca empire found along coast of Peru, photos show
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 ...