Petra served as the capital of the Nabataean people for hundreds of years before the Romans annexed the kingdom around A.D. 106. The ancient trade center once housed tens of thousands of people.

In 1862, the architect Jakob Ignaz Hittorffdrew similarity between Petra's monument and a fresco belonging to the Second Style visible in the House of the Labyrinth in Pompeii, where a tholos with a ...

Known as the Rose-Red City, its architecture glows with stunning colors. It was the Nabataean Kingdom’s capital around the 6th century BC. Its location on trade routes made the Nabataeans ...