Treasures Decoded
The Riddle of Petra
Season 4 Episode 2
The 2,000-year-old city of Petra, hidden in the barren desert of southern Jordan, has captured the global imagination. Its breath-taking ruins spread over one square mile with temples, a great theatre and hundreds of tombs half-built and half-sculpted straight from the desert's rocky cliffs. A main stopping point for Nabataean and foreign traders, Petra holds a mystery that has long puzzled historians - why its 25,000 or so residents to abandoned such a grand and elaborate city
Treasures Decoded airs on Sky History 2 at 4:00 PM, Wednesday 18 December. (Subtitles.)
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