Rivalling Al Khazneh 0r the Treasury in terms of sheer impressiveness, the Monastery is larger, but has a less elaborate facade.
The ancient Nabateans sure knew how to carve.
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Rivalling Al Khazneh 0r the Treasury in terms of sheer impressiveness, the Monastery is larger, but has a less elaborate facade.
The ancient Nabateans sure knew how to carve.
The narrow mile-long canyon that leads into the ancient Nabatean city of Petra in Jordan.
Looking upwards:
Al-Khazneh, or the Treasury, beckons.
Petra’s magnificent Al Khazneh or Treasury, Jordan.
Carved by the mysterious, pre-Christian, pre-Islamic Nabatean people, the building’s purpose as a tomb belies its popular name.
Two thousand years of erosion and vandalism have barely dulled its ability to amaze and astonish.