Petra is regarded as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World, with the ancient city being rediscovered in the early 20th century. It's now an in-demand travel destination as scorching hot for bucket ...

AMMAN — The Water Ministry, supported by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), has launched a borehole in Athruh region in Maan Governorate with a capacity of 70 cubic metres per hour at a cost ...

AMMAN — Culture Minister Ali Al Ayed on Monday attended the inauguration ceremony of the Petra Culture Centre in Wadi Musa, which was established by the Petra Development and Tourism Region Authority ...

Hassan praised the factory as a model of successful local investment and reaffirmed the government’s commitment to supporting ...

Petra is full of mysteries. One that astonishes me is hearing our guide say that 95 per cent of this abandoned ancient city remains unexcavated. ‘And,’ says Abdullah, as we peruse the vast ...

Petra, in southern Jordan, is a love letter to human civilisation from a long-lost empire. The Nabataeans, a nomadic Arabic people, began chiselling away at the natural sandstone surroundings around 2 ...

Join our Whatsapp channel Flash floods killed 12 people in Jordan and forced nearly 4,000 tourists to flee the famed ancient desert city of Petra, emergency services said on Saturday. Search teams ...

The ancient city of Petra may be one of the world’s best-known archaeological sites, but it still has secrets to reveal. A massive “monumental platform” has been discovered within the Petra UNESCO ...

'Match me a marvel save in Eastern clime/a rosered city half as old as time,’ wrote John William Burgon in his poem Petra. I had always wanted to see the city before shuffling off this planet, and I ...