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A tomb beneath Petra’s Treasury reveals 12 skeletons and 2,000-year-old artifacts. Archaeologists call it a rare find, ...
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Petra Molnar is a lawyer and anthropologist specializing on the impacts of migration technologies on people crossing borders. She co-runs the Refugee Law Lab at York University and the Migration and ...
Petra: Lost City of Stone Season 42 Episode 5 | 53m 36s | CC In a daring experiment, an archaeologist and sculptors team up to carve an iconic temple-tomb to find out how the ancient people of ...
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Petra, which 2,000 years ago was on the thriving caravan trade route for frankincense and spices, is a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Since then, Petra’s fame has grown. UNESCO inscribed the city’s ruins as a World Heritage site in 1985, and the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade used Petra as a stage for some scenes.
Petra is home to more than 600 hypogea, tombs carved into the rocky walls of the valley. Many are simple burial chambers with loculi—niches in which to lay the dead—with no external decoration.
Petra Kvitova was attacked in her home in December 2016. This is the story of her survival, her return to tennis, and how it changed her.