Creasman said the architecture of the buried tomb is the “most exciting” aspect of the discovery, because its “construction ...

The majority of archaeological remains in Petra are tombs, Al-Salameen says. The Nabataeans must have paid a lot of attention to the afterlife, he says. “They looked at their life as a short ...

A UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the new seven wonders of the world, Petra is a giant metropolis of tombs, monuments, and other elaborate religious structures directly carved into sandstone ...

Karen Shrode of Columbus took this photo of the Treasury, one of the rock-cut tombs in Petra, Jordan, on Feb. 25.