Built over 2,000 years ago ... These earthquakes damaged Petra’s water infrastructure. “It was a reason why the city was gradually abandoned,” Al-Salameen says. Residents relocated to ...

it is easy to see why, in local tradition, the episode from the biblical Book of Exodus—in which Moses makes water flow by striking a rock from his staff—is set in Petra. According to the ...

One of Petra's mysteries is why the Nabateans plowed so much of their ... It resembles the private ornamental gardens built to the north in Judea by Herod the Great, who lived until 4 B.C ...