Jordan. As visitors enter Petra from the winding gorge known as the Siq, they first behold the towering edifice of Al Khazna, or the Treasury, carved from rosy-hued sandstone. For many tourists ...

At the end of the Siq-a narrow, winding gorge through ... as early the Paleolithic era. This part of Jordan is also religiously significant: Petra is part of Wadi Mūsā (the Valley of Moses ...