A UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the new ... In reality, this building, the only example at Petra of a monument not sculpted out of rock, is a large temple. A tetrastyle structure (with ...

UNESCO inscribed the city’s ruins as a World Heritage site ... Before earthquakes damaged the city, Petra probably had around 30,000 people, Perry says. “It’s not just the tombs.

Petra is half-built, half-carved into the rock, and is surrounded by mountains riddled with passages and gorges. It is one of the world's most famous archaeological sites, where ancient Eastern ...