Petra archaeological and historical city located in the Maan governorate in the south of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
The architecture of the building is famous for its CARVED rocks and old water pulling channels. The old name of "goods", as it was named the "pink city", the proportion of color twisted rocks.
Petra was founded in 312 BC as the capital of a nabatean.
It has gained a reputation for long years, where its location on the silk road, and medium of the civilizations of Mesopotamia, Palestine and Egypt, have a major role to make the state of the nabateans controlling trade between the civilizations of these areas and their inhabitants.
The city lies on the slopes of Mount altar, between a group of TOWERING Rocky Mountains, which form the north west flank of the
Arab Peninsula, specifically the Arava valley, stretching from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba.
The site of Petra remained undiscovered west throughout the Ottoman period, and even re-discovered Swiss ORIENTALIST johann ludwig brekhart in 1812.
The city of Petra was included on the World Heritage List of unesco in 1985.
Has been selected as one of the New Seven
Wonders of the world in 2007.
Petra is today, a symbol of Jordan, and more attractive places for tourists at the level of the United Kingdom.
It is also one of the most important tourist destinations of world leaders.
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