Have you heard that the entire city carved in the rock? And did you know that this rock is not like the rest of the rocks, but it is a rock and pink breathtaking Faten? Comes to mind that's fiction, but really fantastic, overlooking you to bypass the narrow corridor, to tell you the talk of past generations, and you speak about the skill of the Nabataeans and the accuracy of their making and technical competence that extends the breadth of the valley.
It is a city of Petra, the capital of the Nabateans whose business empire stretched to the limits of the Euphrates, and coined money in the city of Damascus, and built ships in the Red Sea ports. The Nabataeans folk invaders, and with the passage of days became a peaceful state, and mobilized armies to ensure peace over parts of their country from the year 312 BC.. Until the year 106 AD.
In the early days of Christianity came Petra hermits monks Fashoa in caves and arrived in her convent.And built Crusaders Qotain.
In Petra tomb of Aaron, brother of Moses.
The spin on Petra many myths, and heard some Swiss traveler named Burckhardt, he decided to visit the city and to recognize what it is. He learned Arabic, and wearing a dress Badawi, and carrying on his shoulder a black goat, and went up in 1812 towards the old mosque above the tomb of Aaron, and gave victim Anzath. After his journey began Petra secrets to reveal to the world ... If is a rare masterpiece of beauty and splendor .. Wave harmonious colors over the rocks like a piece of art painted by a great artist.There are red lines and yellow, green and white, blue and black, are intertwined and beyond and then wave like the waves of the sea. The fact that the earth movements prior to the date lifted from the bottom of the deep sea, and makes it the top of Mount rocky .. I stopped ripples sea water .. And froze as it is .. And remained until this day colored sand and rocks as if they are still at the bottom of the seas!
The months in the famous Petra her convent, and stored, and the tomb of the palace, so called because fronted like interface palaces emperors of Rome..
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