Ever seen a building so legendary you have to squeeze through a canyon just to meet it? Yeah, welcome to Petra. And this first glimpse always hits. Look at that. Al-Khazneh, The Treasury, carved ...

Petra: Lost City of Stone is the most comprehensive exhibition ever presented on the ancient, Middle Eastern city of Petra and its creators - the Nabataeans. And it's coming to Grand Rapids. The ...

Built over 2,000 years ago, the iconic desert city continues to mesmerize tourists and archaeologists alike. Ad Deir, or the Monastery, is one of Petra's many facades carved out of sandstone in Wadi ...

It’s been hailed as a stunning discovery. A team of archaeologists have unearthed a hidden tomb in Jordan’s ancient city of Petra. Researchers found the tomb in the UNESCO World Heritage site under ...

More than two hundred years after Western explorers uncovered the ancient city of Petra in the present-day country of Jordan, researchers have discovered another hidden ruin buried beneath the UNESCO ...

In 2008, Allan Langdale starred in and directed a documentary called The Stones of Famagusta, about a “forgotten” city on the island of Cyprus, and next week he’ll be speaking in Santa Barbara about ...

While the ancient city of Petra is simply a famous archaeological site to most of the world, for university professor Sami Alhasanat, it's a treasured "playground." While the ancient city of Petra is ...

An ancient civilization built the famous, stone-hewn city of Petra so that the sun would illuminate their sacred places like celestial spotlights, a new study says. Petra, a giant metropolis of tombs, ...

PETRA, THE ANCIENT CITY sculpted out of the red-rock cliffs in the Jordanian desert, is one of the most renowned archaeological sites in the world. In planning my visit last fall, I assumed it would ...

Bill Glover encountered what appeared to be a conflict in music while growing up in Indiana in the late 1960s and early 1970s ...