Petra: How the Nabataeans Carved a City from Rose-Red Rock — With Water, Chisels, and 500 Years

Around 400 BCE, the Nabataean people began chiseling an entire city into Jordan's sandstone cliffs — engineering hidden cisterns, dams, and canals to tame the desert, and carving the iconic Al-Khazneh Treasury facade to honor their dead.

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