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Directions<br />
Take the Desert Highway southbound. After 200km turn<br />
right, following the signs indicating the route to the city.<br />
Petra is about 3 hours from Amman.<br />
DID YOU KNOW?<br />
Evidence of the Nabataeans<br />
at Petra was already dwindling<br />
and when Christianity<br />
spread across the Byzantine<br />
Empire, Petra became the<br />
seat of a bishopric and a<br />
monument was converted to<br />
a church, which is the Urn<br />
Tomb. Recent excavations<br />
have exposed three churches,<br />
one of them paved with<br />
colored mosaics.<br />
Aaron’s Tomb. <br />
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The monolithic pinnacle of the Monastery (Ad Deir) at Petra.<br />
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(Far left) The Treasury or ‘Khazneh’ at Petra.<br />
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