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Petra was the capital and royal city of the Nabataeans, a semi-nomadic, Arab people who dominated the silk- and spice trade across the deserts. Facades of uncertain use,perhaps tombs,line the entrance way to Petra.
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Petra was the capital and royal city of the Nabataeans, a semi-nomadic, Arab peo...

Petra was the capital and royal city of the Nabataeans, a semi-nomadic, Arab people who dominated the silk- and spice trade across the deserts. The "Kings' Wall", with supposed tombs of Nabataean royalty.
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Petra was the capital and royal city of the Nabataeans, a semi-nomadic, Arab peo...

Petra was the capital and royal city of the Nabataeans, a semi-nomadic, Arab people who dominated the silk- and spice trade across the deserts. The "Kings' Wall", with supposed tombs of Nabataean royalty.
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Petra was the capital and royal city of the Nabataeans, a semi-nomadic, Arab peo...

Petra was the capital and royal city of the Nabataeans, a semi-nomadic, Arab people who dominated the silk-and spice trade across the deserts. Ed-Dir, Petra's largest monument, is on a plateau 800 steps above the city.From the 4th century onwards it was used as a monastery.
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Petra was the capital and royal city of the Nabataeans, a semi-nomadic, Arab peo...

Petra was the capital and royal city of the Nabataeans, a semi-nomadic, Arab people who dominated the silk-and spice trade across the deserts. An outside staircase leads from the Cardo, Petra's main street, to a plateau of rubble and ruins,caused by time and earthquakes.
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Petra was the capital and royal city of the Nabataeans, a semi-nomadic, Arab peo...

Petra was the capital and royal city of the Nabataeans, a semi-nomadic, Arab people who dominated the silk-and spice trade across the deserts.The main temple of Petra, called "Qasr el-Bint Firaun" by the local Beduins,"Palace of the Pharaoh's daughter".
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Petra was the capital and royal city of the Nabataeans, a semi-nomadic, Arab peo...

The late-Roman temple of er-Rabba - an abandoned city dating from biblical times and inhabited until the Mamluk period (13th-15th CE). Inscriptions on the temple walls honour Emperors Diokletian and Maximian (286-305 CE).
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The late-Roman temple of er-Rabba - an abandoned city dating from biblica...

Lehun, a settlement inhabited between the 3rd BCE and the Arab conquest, has a small Nabataean temple, 6 x 6 m.
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Lehun, a settlement inhabited between the 3rd BCE and the Arab conquest, h...

The Roman fort of Um er-Rassas was the base for a cavalry regiment stationed at the edge of the desert in Mefaa.
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The Roman fort of Um er-Rassas was the base for a cavalry regiment station...

The Roman fort of Um er-Rassas was the base for a cavalry regiment stationed at the edge of the desert in Mefaa,Jordan
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The Roman fort of Um er-Rassas was the base for a cavalry regiment station...

Kallirhoe, an antique spa with hot and cold springs, Jordan. King Herodes sought relief for various ills in its waters; a direct route leads from his fortress of Machaerus to the springs of the spa.
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Kallirhoe, an antique spa with hot and cold springs, Jordan. King Herodes sou...

Kallirhoe, an antique spa with hot and cold springs. King Herodes sought relief for various ills in its waters; a direct route leads from his fortress of Machaerus to the springs of the spa.
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Kallirhoe, an antique spa with hot and cold springs. King Herodes sought reli...