Petra, JORDAN

Petra in Greek means rock. It is a historical and archaeological city in Jordan and it is famous for its rock cut architecture and water conduits system. Built sometime around the 6th century BC as the capital city of the Nabateans.

Sarah Travel Diary - Petra Jordan Part 2

Petra* UNESCO World Heritage Site -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Treasury at Petra State Party Jordan Type Cultural Criteria i, iii, iv Reference 326 Region** Arab States Inscription history Inscription 1985 (9th Session) * Name as inscribed on World Heritage List. ** Region as classified by UNESCO. Petra (Greek "πέτρα" (petra), meaning rock; Arabic: البتراء, Al-Batrāʾ) is an archaeological site in the Arabah, Ma'an Governorate, Jordan, lying on the slope of Mount Hor[1] in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Arabah (Wadi Araba), the large valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. It is renowned for its rock-cut architecture. Petra is also one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. The Nabataeans constructed it as their capital city around 100 BCE.[2] The site remained unknown to the Western world until 1812, when it was introduced to the West by Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt. It was famously described as "a rose-red city half as old as time" in a Newdigate prize-winning sonnet by John William Burgon. UNESCO has described it as "one of the most precious cultural properties of man's cultural heritage."[3] In 1985, Petra was designated a World Heritage Site.

19. Baroque Extravaganzas: Rock Tombs, Fountains, and Sanctuaries in Jordan, Lebanon, and Libya

Roman Architecture (HSAR 252) Professor Kleiner features the baroque phenomenon in Roman architecture, in which the traditional vocabulary of architecture, consisting of columns and other conventional architectural elements, is manipulated to enliven building façades and inject them with dynamic motion. This baroque trend is often conspicuously ornamental and began to be deployed on the walls of forums and tombs in Italy already in the late first century AD But baroque architecture in Roman antiquity was foremost in the Greek East where high-quality marble and expert marble carvers made it the architectural mode of choice. At Petra in Jordan, tomb chambers were cut into cliffs and elaborate façades carved out of the living rock. The cities of Miletus and Ephesus in Asia Minor were adorned with gates and fountains and libraries and stage buildings that consisted of multi-storied columnar screens. The lecture culminates with the Sanctuary of Jupiter Heliopolitanus, a massive temple complex at Baalbek in Lebanon, with Temples of Jupiter and Bacchus in enormous scale and with extreme embellishment, and the Temple of Venus with an undulating lintel that foreshadows the curvilinear flourishes of Francesco Borromini's S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane in seventeenth-century Rome. Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: open.yale.edu This course was recorded in Spring 2009.

Sarah Travel Diary - Petra Jordan ( one of the wonders of the world) Part one

Well I never thought I would ever go to Jordan it wasnt really one of the places I had ever wished to go but wow what an amazing place. It is said to be one of the wonders of the world. Its this amazing place which has been built out of cliffs and gorges and its so hard to explain really what it is like.. Harrison Ford did film a triology of films of course very famously. Petra* UNESCO World Heritage Site -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Treasury at Petra State Party Jordan Type Cultural Criteria i, iii, iv Reference 326 Region** Arab States Inscription history Inscription 1985 (9th Session) * Name as inscribed on World Heritage List. ** Region as classified by UNESCO. Petra (Greek "πέτρα" (petra), meaning rock; Arabic: البتراء, Al-Batrāʾ) is an archaeological site in the Arabah, Ma'an Governorate, Jordan, lying on the slope of Mount Hor[1] in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Arabah (Wadi Araba), the large valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. It is renowned for its rock-cut architecture. Petra is also one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. The Nabataeans constructed it as their capital city around 100 BCE.[2] The site remained unknown to the Western world until 1812, when it was introduced to the West by Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt. It was famously described as "a rose-red city half as old as time" in a Newdigate prize-winning sonnet by John William Burgon ...