البتراء. Petra Engineering Industries Co.

It is listed in Egyptian campaign accounts and the Amarna lettersas Pel, Sela or Seir 7 seems to be more specific
Petra today On December 6, 1985, Petra was designated a World Heritage Site Protection and management requirements Under Jordanian National law, responsibility for protection of Antiquities sites lies with the Department of Antiquities, a separate entity under the Ministry for Tourism and Antiquities

معلومات عن مدينة البتراء

It is one of the world's richest and largest archaeological sites set in a dominating red sandstone landscape.

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السياحة في البتراء: افضل 9 معالم سياحية في المدينة الوردية
The ruins of Petra were an object of curiosity in the Middle Ages and were visited by SultanBaibars of Egypt towards the end of the 13th century
موضوع عن البتراء بالانجليزي
It contains many architectural works influenced by Assyrian architecture, Pharaonic architecture and Greek architecture, especially in the construction of royal tombs, carved by the Nabataeans in rock, as well as tombs built with cut stone
Petra
Not virgin-white like that old Doric shrine,where erst Athena held her rites divine; Not saintly-grey, like many a minster fane,that crowns the hill and consecrates the plain; But rose-red as if the blush of dawn,that first beheld them were not yet withdrawn; The hues of youth upon a brow of woe,which Man deemed old two thousand years ago, match me such marvel save in Eastern clime,a rose-red city half as old as time
Petra Inhabited since prehistoric times, this Nabataean caravan-city, situated between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea, was an important crossroads between Arabia, Egypt and Syria-Phoenicia It is one of the world's most famous archaeological sites, where ancient Eastern traditions blend with Hellenistic architecture
The execution of a successful corporate and business strategy soon took Petra to great heights and enabled it to become competitive with long-established companies The theatre was probably excavated at that time, and Petra must have assumed the aspect of a Hellenistic city

Petra

Then comes a series of tombfronts which terminate in a semicircular arch, a feature derived from north Syria.

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البتراء
A Roman road was constructed at the site
Petra Dorms, Amman
Criterion iii : The serried rows of numerous rock-cut tombs reflecting architectural influences from the Assyrians through to monumental Hellenistic; the sacrificial and other religious high places including on Jebels Madbah, M'eisrah, Khubtha, Habis and Al Madras; the remains of the extensive water engineering system, city walls and freestanding temples; garden terraces; funerary stelae and inscriptions together with the outlying caravan staging posts on the approaches from the north Barid or Little Petra and south Sabra also containing tombs, temples, water cisterns and reservoirs are an outstanding testament to the now lost Nabataean civilization of the fourth century BC to the first century AD
مدينة البتراء
Petra is half-built, half-carved into the rock, and is surrounded by mountains riddled with passages and gorges