Temple of Al Uzza





Temple of Dushares


Qasr el-Bint, the temple of Dushares, has the largest facade in Petra — 4 m wider than the Khazneh and the Great Temple. It belongs to the Parthian 'flight' type of temples with two staircases giving access to a flat roof. The central interaxial column spacing of this temple is around 8.00 m, a very impressive span, if one takes into consideration that the same span in the Artemis temple at Jerash is 'only' 4.90 m, and in the Hercules temple in Amman it is 5.18 m. Each of the column drums of the temple must have weighed around 7 tons. The masonry, the craftsmanship and the ergonomics of its construction indicate that Qasr el-Bint was a very costly project. Wooden courses inside the masonry secured the elasticity of its walls.

Museum






Silver Nabataean coin




Elephant capitals down close so you can actually touch them and see them.

Dier


The Monestary is one of the largest monuments in Petra. (It is also one of the farthest from the main gate.) The Deir recieved this name from the cave that is known as the Hermit's Cell. No one knows where this name came from, and it may have only come into use after the Middle Ages.The Deir monument is 40.2 meters wide and is carved deep into the side of the mountain. The door itself is 8 meters high. The main inside chamber is huge. It is 11.5 meters by 10 meters, and is lit only by light coming through the 8 meter high doorway.

Infront of the monument, a huge area was leveled, and seems to have been used for great congregations of people. The surrounding hills form a great natural amphitheater.Not far from the Deir, along the left wall full of caves and cisterns is a carving showing two camels and men. Across from the Deir is a pilastered niche in a cave, with a man standing beside an altar.Around the Deir Plateau there are many excellent views of deep gorges and even Wadi Araba'.
Habis
Jebal Habis is a small mountain that stands at the back of Petra. It is dwarfed by the huge shadow of Um al Biera behind it. Jebal Habis is an important mountain however, for along it's bottom are many tombs and on the south end and along the top there are the remains of a small crusader castle. If you stop at the ancient pistachio tree in the center of Petra, at the Nymphium, the old man who runs the soda pop shop will probably point to Jebal Habis and ask you if you can see the camel in it. And sure enough, the north end of the mountain looks like a camel's head.


Jebal Habis contains many facinating monuments. One of them is known as the Unfinished Tomb. Note that the sculptors began by carving the tomb from the top down. This tomb would have been very impressive if it had been completed.


The Columbarium as another facinating monument on Jebal Habis. A columbarium is a place with tiers of niches for the reception of cinerary urns. The niches in this cave at Petra are only 30 cm square, so they could not have been used for this purpose. Some have suggested that the niches would have been used for carrier pigeons, thus making it a post office. The problem with this is that the niches are too shallow. The niches at Petra's Columbarium are unique in that they slope in from the top.
Biera




Um el Beira (Biyara) is the great flat topped mountain in the back of Petra. It is possible to climb this mountain if you are good at hiking. Along the left side of the mountain is a processional way and stairs, but they are in a very ruinous state. The picture below shows the smaller Jebal Habis mountain in front of Um al Beira.There are ruins of a small Edomite village on top of Um al Biera. It was once thought that this mountain was ancient Sela, but excavations have proven that this is not the case, and Sela has now been located close to Al Busheira, farther north of Petra.

City of Board Games


One of the many game boards in Petra. It appears that this board is 4 holes by 14 holes. For size, note the pop bottle cap above the board. This board is easy to locate. It is on the rocks behind the first row of small shops as one walks from the parking lot to the Government Resthouse.Dr. Bilal Khrisat of the Hashemite University has his degree in Geoarcheology and confirms that these boards are from antiquity, and not recently made by Bedouin shepherds.
Snake Monument

Sabara Suburb
There are two ways to get to Al Sabara. The first, described below, is to start at Darshares Temple and hike along the bottom of Um al Biyara (as if you were going to Aron's Tomb) until you get to the snake monument. From there it is another hour hike to Wadi Al Sabara. At one time this route was sign posted. The second route starts on the Hotel road above Wadi Mousa. Start south of the Grand View Hotel and head down the mountain and west towards the Sabara mountains. You pass down fields, a rough road and just before the flat-topped Tabqa mountains turn south down the gorge called Ras Sabara, along a clear track until the wadi widens. From there it is easier to hike into Petra than to climb back up the mountain.


In Wadi Sabara, the Nabataeans had an agricultural and industrial settlement. Hewn into the cliff on the left is a theater. Above the theater was a water reservoir. Behind the theater stage is another water basin. Along the sides of the wadi are many cave homes. Past the theater is a cult niche in the cliff, just beyond the perennial sprint, Ain Sabara. On the north west side of the wadi, above the sprint are the ruins of a monumental building with large columns which may have been a temple. There is a heap of copper ore slag on the top of the wadi embankment. Cupriferous sandstone deposits, iron ore and copper are found along the wadi, demonstrating how this was an important mental-working center at Petra.

City Walls/Map


Contrary to popular opinion, Petra is not a city hidden in a crack in a rock mountain. That describes the Treasury monument, but not Petra proper. The city of Petra is located in a wide open valley. The Nabataeans built walls across this valley to protect their city from invasion from the north and south. To date, few excavations have been carried out on the wall. The best place to view the walls is from the hill above the churches.

AlBeidha






After Petra, Al Beidha or Little Petra is the next most important site for the casual visitor in Wadi Musa. This site is only a few kilometers from Petra and easily accessible by taxi or rented car. It is literally hidden away in the center of a mountain.

Churches
Petra boasts an amazing number of churches. Many old tombs were turned into churches or cathedrals, and many tombs later had crosses inscribed into their walls. Along with this, there are three churches built almost side by side. The Christian era at Petra came during the 3rd and 4th centuries, when many of the Nabataean people had emigrated elsewhere.






In 1990 Kenneth W. Russell discovered the remains of a Byzantine era church on the north slope of the Colonnade Street. The church contained mosaic floors, marble screens, side rooms, a baptismal tank, and a room full of burnt scrolls, now known as the Petra Scrolls.These scrolls were taken to the American Center for Oriental Research in Amman, and after careful examination were translated.

Kubtha High Place






In recent years the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities in Jordan has repaired the stairs to Al Kubtha Mountain, making it possible for tourists to climb to the top and visit the High Place and other sites on this mountain. The stairs up this mountain are located between the Palace Tomb and Sextius Florentinus Tomb.

Petra Park


In 1993, Jordan set aside a hundred odd square miles of rugged canyon country as a national park. This park not only contains the ancient city of Petra with it's priceless monuments, but all through the park are steep walled canyons with old caravan roads that once moved exotic eastern goods to the Egyptian, Greek and Roman Empires.


More than 2,000 years ago Petra was used as a temporary refuge by nomadic Nabatean Arabs, Bedouins who came north out of Arabia. From a few caves in a rocky outcrop, easy to defend, the nabateans created Petra as a fortress city.
Petra still forms part of the domain of the Bedouin. The visitor finds them with their horses and camels for the unforgettable trip into the rose red city.
To reach the city the visitor travels on foot, on horse-back, or by horse drawn carriage through the awesome "Siq", an immense crack in the Nubian sandstone. It is a winding, one kilometer long fissure between overhanging cliffs that seem to meet more than 300 feet overhead.
Near the end of the passage, the Siq, with great style, makes one last turn and out of the gloom in the towering brightness appears Petra's most impressive monument el Khazneh - The Treasury. This, one of the most elegant remains of antiquity, carved out of the solid rock from the mountain, is nearly 140 feet high and 90 feet wide.

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