The Siq is a 1.2 kilometer long natural crack in the rocks,
which the Nabateans developed into the citys formal entryway.
The Siq ends in front of the Khazneh or Khaznet Pharoun, so called because
it was thought that the monument held the Pharaohs treasure.
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