Portal:History/Featured picture/June, 2006

The "Treasury" at Petra. It is called the Treasury, because the local bedouin mistakenly believed that there was treasure hidden somewhere inside..

Petra is an archaeological site in Jordan, lying in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Wadi Araba, the great valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. It is famous for having many stone structures carved into the rock.(read more....)