Petra is a city of pink legends

Label:

It was formerly called “goods”, also called “the pink city” after the colors of its twisted rocks, and is now known as the pink city.

Site

In the governorate of Ma'an, south of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, on the slopes of Mount Altar, among a group of high rocky mountains

Petra is this timeless architectural miracle, when you look at the rocks around you everywhere

You will never think that a legendary city with such greatness and beauty would be built to be carved into the rock.

In this supernatural place you will not be surprised at every corner of it

How much they said that silence on the campus of beauty is beauty, but I say today that carving words in the presence of beauty in honor of this legendary architecture is a duty and imposition.

 The history of Petra is the city of pink mythology

Petra was founded in about 312 BC and was the capital of the Nabataean kingdom.

Because of its location on the Silk Road,

Which mediates the civilizations of Mesopotamia, Palestine and Egypt,

This would make the Nabatean state take control of the trade between the civilizations of these regions and their inhabitants.

The Nabataean Arabs carved Petra, the city of pink myths, rock after rock

For more than 2000 years, Petra has been a living testament to the richest and most innovative Arab civilization

It was founded in 312 BC and was the capital of the Nabataeans, and in 2007 was selected as one of the seven wonders of the world.

Rediscovered Petra

The site of Petra remained undiscovered to the West throughout the Ottoman period, until it was rediscovered by traveler and Orientalist Berkhart in 1812

The most beautiful discoveries are found by chance, through an expedition in the Levant, Egypt and Arabia for the Royal Geographical Society of Britain

Berkhart's eyes found this majestic beauty in the desert, which he also could not keep silent, and wrote about in his diary.

The most important archaeological sites in Petra city of pink legends:

 Siq:

Al-Siq is the main road to Petra, which reveals the safe.

It is a rocky slit with a length of about 1200 meters and a width ranging from 3 to 12 meters, and the height of Faisal to about 80 meters

The siq ends at the opposite side of the treasury.

Remains of a arch representing the city gate can be seen at the beginning of the Siq

On both sides there are channels to drag water from Wadi Musa's eyes outside to the city inside.

Side dams erected at the site of the original Nabataean dams can also be seen to prevent water from flowing to the Siq, blocking and utilizing it.

The Siq floor was tiled with stone tiles, part of which can be seen in its original place.

The sides of the Siq are decorated with Nabataean sculptures, most of which are gods.

There are also statues of gods and niches very close to these canals and sometimes even adjacent to them, because the Nabateans believed and believed that the water is sacred.

A collection of sculptures can also be seen on the left side of the sig known as the Sabinus idols,

This group is named after the Greek inscription under the second apse to the left of the visitor heading towards the end of the Siq.

The inscription indicates that Sabinus, the son of Alexander the Great, who came from Daraa, ordered the carving of these niches or niches in glorification of the Nabataean gods.

Another important sculpture is the remains of a camel and a man representing a commercial caravan.

 the safe:

The most famous landmarks of Petra, the city of pink mythology and the most beautiful, as it shows little by little, forcibly seized the eye while walking in the Siq to reveal the most beautiful treasure immortalized in history.

The treasury was carved in the rock, and the Nabataeans carefully chose its position as the first landmark to face the visitor after entering the city.

It was named after that

Because local Bedouins previously thought that the jar at the top of the façade contained a buried treasure, but it was in fact a royal mausoleum.

The front of the safe consists of two floors with a width of 25 meters and a height of 39 meters.

When rediscovered in the 19th century, hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of sandstone were emptied from the treasury to show the façade in its present final state.

The basement consists of six columns along the front end standing above the terrace in the middle of a ladder

The columns are crowned from the top by three quarters of the column, the length of the column in the basement about 12 meters

The upper floor is 9 meters high and the jar at the top is about 3.5 meters high.

Some archaeologists believe that the treasury was built as a temple or archive,

However, modern archaeological excavations in Petra have proved to be buried beneath the courtyard of the treasury

Which can now be seen from above through the iron grille above it.

The tombs were also cut to build and maintain the safe.

The safe is thus buried.

With the first century AD, the time of King Harith IV of the Nabataeans was established. It is probably a burial ground for this king.

The interior of the treasury consists of three rooms

Two on the side and one in the middle. The two side rooms are empty except for a grave excavated in the western room

The middle chamber is 12.5 meters tall, and on its three sides are small burial chambers.

On both sides of the treasury are externally small holes on both sides in the upper half of the treasury

It may have been used to install scaffolding during the sculpting process.

At the top of the treasury building is a 90 cm wide canal to drain water and prevent it from descending on this façade. Recent excavations have cleaned the canal.

Petra Theater:

The theater of Petra, the city of pink legends of the largest buildings, was built in the first century AD in the form of a semi-circle with a diameter of 95 meters, and a height of 23 meters.

It is carved in the rock except the front of it is built

The theater can accommodate 7-10 thousand viewers, and viewers seats consist of 45 rows of seats divided horizontally into three sections

Bottom 11 rows, middle 34 rows and top 10 rows

It is also divided by the five drawers into six parts

Above the terraces are pieces of rock cut from some of the former burials of the theater.

The orchestra was cut with rock, and the two sides of the courtyard are also cut into the rock and covered with stone-shaped arch.

The back wall of the theater consists of 3 floors, decorated with niches and columns and its facade covered with marble panels.

Girl's Palace:

The palace of the girl is called the Palace of the Pharaoh, a Nabataean temple from the 1st century BC.

The significance of the palace is that it is one of Petra's few buildings that survived the earthquakes

This is because of the way it was built using jargon in which juniper wood was placed, making its walls more malleable during earthquakes.

The apse to the right of the front square of the Girl's Palace was originally designed to perpetuate the Roman Emperor and his family when the Romans conquered Petra

This tradition is known to the Romans.

This temple was dedicated to one of the main gods,

Some argue that these gods are the Lat while others believe it is attribution, and others saw it as the Supreme God with urticaria.

Court:

The court consists of a group of important facades, the first of which is the “Tomb of the Jar”, dating back to the first half of the first century AD, and is located opposite the Nabataean stadium.

The facade is about 16 meters wide and 26 meters high.

It consists of two floors of walls that support arches below the level of the vault hall,

They are integrated with burial chambers, one part carved and the other built. There is a staircase that goes up to the burial ground at the top.

The tomb consists of a square hall with a length of about 19 meters.

The tombs were at the back of the tomb, and in the 5th century AD it was converted into a church.

There is a Greek inscription that states that the church was converted in 447 and is written on the left back of the wall.

The Great Temple:

It is called the Great Temple because it is the largest building in Petra, the city of pink legends

The temple is located on the south side of the baptized street. It consists of a main entrance associated with the street

Then there is a sacred basement square on both sides of which there are two identical buildings in the form of a semicircular.

Above it lies the Temple or the Holy of Holies.

Altar:

The altar was used during the Crusaders to serve as a link between the castles of Al-Waira and Al-Habis. The altar's origins are eternal.

Consists of a central courtyard surrounded by seats on three sides.

The first thing that can be seen in this area are two obelisks cut into the rock and are believed to symbolize the most important gods of the Nabataean with urticaria and his everlasting companion.

Remnants of walls and a tower believed to be eternal are reused in the Nabataean period.

On the west side are two altars, one of which is rectangular in shape, probably used for tawaf

The other is circular in shape, believed to have been used to put the blood of offerings or wine.

The bottom of the city can be seen from this location.

Monastery:

The monastery is an important building in Petra, dating back to the first half of the first century BC.

The monastery building consists of two floors, and some assume it contained moving statues of crowns. It is larger than the treasury building

It is 50 meters wide and 50 meters high