The jewel of South Jordan is Petra, the unique, 2,000-year-old rock-carved city,
the pink and salmon coloured capital of the Nabataean Arabs.
Petra is always breath-taking, never to be forgotten. It flourished for over 400 years
around the time of Rome and Christ, until it was occupied by the Roman legions of
the Emperor Trajan in 106 AD.
The Petra basin boasts over 800 individual monuments that were mostly carved from
the kaleidoscopic sandstone by the technical and artistic genius of the Nabataeans.

View of the central Petra ruins from the museum. 9/12/2000

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