With none of the crowds but much of the mystique of Jordan's Petra facades, Hegra is a history-rich highlight in newly ...

Photograph by Taylor Kennedy, Nat Geo Image Collection “If you’d like to visit Petra, you can’t cover it in one day,” says Zeyad Al-Salameen, an archaeologist at Mohamed Bin Zayed ...

Believed to have been settled as early as 9000 B.C., Petra developed into the thriving capital of the Nabataean kingdom. This little-understood Middle Eastern culture ruled much of modern-day ...