Two thousand years ago, Petra was standing at a crossroads
of the ancient East. Camel caravans passed through, away from the fields of spices,
cloth and filled with sunshine - and through such commerce, the city
flourished. Its people, Nabataeans, precious tap water, enabling the population
to soar to perhaps 20,000.
Nabataeans built the monumental tombs, their kings and
leaders memorializing. But political control has changed over time, and so did
the trade routes. Finally, the city was quiet, forgotten by the outside world.
Archaeologists find clues to the past are today Petra. Great
exhibits here, recently explored by several excavations, shed new light on this
extraordinary desert city.
Petra, the world wonder, a doubt Jordan's most valuable
treasure and greatest tourist attraction is without. It is a vast, unique city,
carved into the rock face is sheer by Nabataeans, an industrious Arab people
who settled here more than 2000 years ago, silk, spice and other trade routes
that linked China to turn into an important junction, India Egypt, Syria,
Greece and Rome with the southern Arabia.
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