البتراء. Petra Engineering Industries Co.

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 The impressive eastern entrance leads steeply down through a dark, narrow gorge in places only 3—4 m 9
Towards the close of the 2nd century BCE, when the Ptolemaic and Seleucid kingdoms were equally depressed, the Nabataean kingdom came to the front In 363 an earthquake destroyed many buildings, and crippled the vital water management system

من بنى البتراء

Threats to Petra The site suffers from a host of threats, including collapse of ancient structures, erosion due to flooding and improper rainwater drainage, weathering from salt upwelling, improper restoration of ancient structures, and unsustainable tourism.

Petra Dorms, Amman
Enclosed by towering rocks and watered by a perennial stream, Petra not only possessed the advantages of a fortress, but controlled the main commercial routes which passed through it to Gaza in the west, to Bosra and Damascus in the north, to Aqaba and Leuce Come on the Red Sea, and across the desert to the Persian Gulf
السياحة في البتراء: افضل 9 معالم سياحية في المدينة الوردية
Excavations have demonstrated that it was the ability of the Nabataeans to control the water supply that led to the rise of the desert city, creating an artificial oasis
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The property is a protected area within the Petra Archaeological Park managed by the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities
The property is under pressure from tourism, which has increased greatly since the time of inscription, particularly congestion points such as the Siq which is the main entrance to the city from the east It remained in the hands of the Franks until 1189
[16] The latter has increased substantially ever since the site received widespread media coverage in 2007 during the controversial New Seven Wonders of the World Internet and cell phone campaign, started by a private corporation The area is visited by flash floods and archaeological evidence demonstrates the Nabataeans controlled these floods by the use of dams, cisterns and water conduits

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Source: Outstanding Universal Value Brief synthesis Situated between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea and inhabited since prehistoric times, the rock-cut capital city of the Nabateans, became during Hellenistic and Roman times a major caravan centre for the incense of Arabia, the silks of China and the spices of India, a crossroads between Arabia, Egypt and Syria-Phoenicia.

السياحة في البتراء: افضل 9 معالم سياحية في المدينة الوردية
Decline The narrow passage Siq that leads to Petra Petra declined rapidly under Roman rule, in large part from the revision of sea-based trade routes
موضوع عن البتراء بالانجليزي قصير
Because the structures weakened with age, many of the tombs became vulnerable to thieves, and many treasures were stolen
معلومات عن مدينة البتراء
85—60 BCE , the royal coins begin
The Architecture of Petra,1990,Newyork-oxford Mckenize The habits of the original natives may have influenced the Nabataean custom of burying the dead and offering worship in half-excavated caves
Then comes a series of tombfronts which terminate in a semicircular arch, a feature derived from north Syria

مدينة البترا

After the Islamic conquest of 629—632 Christianity in Petra, as of most of Arabia, gave way to Islam.

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However responsibility for the overall planning and implementation of infrastructure projects at the site rests largely with the Petra Regional Authority PRA - originally the Petra Regional Planning Council PRPC - but now expanded to cover the social and economic wellbeing of the communities in the locality
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It has an elaborate system of old canals, terraces, rock-carved rooms and many facilities
Petra Dorms, Amman
Petra today On December 6, 1985, Petra was designated a World Heritage Site