Beyond
El Khazneh
the visitor is surrounded on both sides by hundreds of Petra’s
carved and built structures, soaring temples, elaborate royal tombs,
a carved Roman theater seating ( 3,000), large and small houses,
burial chambers, banquet halls, water channels and reservoirs,
baths, monumental staircases, cultic installations, markets, arched
gates, public buildings, and paved streets.
Petra is not only
about the Nabataeans, within a fifteen-minute drive of Petra the
visitor can walk through 8,000-year-old excavated Stone Age villages
at Beidha and Basta, wander among the ruins of settlements of the
Biblical Edomites, or explore the sprawling remains of the Roman
legionary fortress at Udruh.
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The Monastery (El Deir) |