Architecture

Arab and Western scholars have identified more than 800 historic sites in the area of Petra. Most of them have been carved into the red walls of the bluffs.

Initially, they were placed in the circle surrounding the sarsen ring and then moved into the circle ...

The chapel (built around 1000) was initially located outside the walls of the Tower. It was included ...

Construction work finished around 560 BC. It was made with marble and Lebanon cedar. Temple's walls and columns were ornamented with bas-reliefs and precious metals like gold and silver.

It was added around 1350 by Tommaso Pisano. He combined the Gothic elements of the pediment with the Romanesque decoration of the building's main part.

The project was called Century Project and lasted until August 2018.

A Spaniard, Joan Vila-Grau, made them.

Petra never recovered from the Egyptian occupation, and subsequent earthquakes sealed its fate.