Spices came from India and beyond, while bitumen from the Dead Sea was essential to the caulking of ships across the Mediterranean. Vast caravans poured through Petra on their way to the lucrative ...

And remnants of meals have also revealed that the people of Petra ate fish imported from the Dead Sea. Petra’s population thrived in an inhospitable desert environment thanks to a ...

Petra Group specializes in the development of urban, resort, and wellness real estate properties that offer investors lucrative opportunities ...

situated between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea, was an important crossroads between Arabia, Egypt and Syria-Phoenicia. Petra is half-built, half-carved into the rock, and is surrounded by mountains ...

Petra, carved into the rose-red cliffs of Jordan, continues to reveal its secrets. Early mapping techniques unveiled in 2016 revealed the potential ruins of a vast structure hidden beneath the ...

At the end of the Siq-a narrow, winding gorge through ruby-red sandstone in southwestern Jordan-lies one of the most jaw-dropping sights in archaeology: an open plaza dominated by Al-Khazneh, an ...

Petra lies empty. Mutasem Alfarajat ... Trail – a 400-mile hiking route from Umm Qais south to Aqaba on the Red Sea – dreams of building another trail from here to the Sea of Galilee, which ...

Lifejackets lie at Petra port, after the capsizing of a boat carrying migrants, off the coast on the northeastern Aegean Sea island of Lesbos, Greece, Thursday, April 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Panagiotis ...

Held in the ancient Roman city of Jerash every summer, the Jerash Festival of Culture and Arts is Jordan’s most famous ...