Archaeologists have discovered a tomb beneath the ancient, imposing Al Khazneh in Petra, Jordan ... the belief among local tribespeople that the urn visible at the top of the facade contained ...

Legends of lost riches had swirled around that very same urn-topped monument ... continued toward Aaron’s tomb. Red Sandstone of PetraThe spectacular geography of Petra's sandstone walls enhance ...

NPR's Eric Westervelt talks to Dr Richard Bates, a geophysicist, about the discovery of a hidden tomb in Jordan's ancient city of Petra. It's been hailed as a stunning discovery. A team of ...

A recent excavation has unearthed 12 human skeletons and a chamber of grave offerings near Petra ... a tomb, or a hiding place for a pharaoh’s riches, rumored to be squirreled in an urn ...

Separate tombs were discovered at the Treasury in 2004, according to Petra's tourism authority, which says they were royal tombs. The tomb's discovery happened over the summer but is now being ...

But the real surprise was what lay within the tomb. While many tombs uncovered within Petra are found empty or disturbed, the chamber was filled with complete skeletal remains and grave goods made ...

Look closely and you’ll see pockmarks in the sandstone urn from those ... Between the Petra Visitor Centre and the entrance to the Siq, there is the Obelisk Tomb, a tomb with four pyramidal ...

One of Petra’s highlights, its lofty columns and shallow pediment are topped by a vast funerary urn; the whole structure ... although it is thought to be the tomb of an important Nabataean ...

Experts conducted excavations under Al Khazneh, also known as the Treasury – an elaborate rock-cut tomb, carved out of a sandstone rock face in Petra, Jordan. They found a 'previously unknown ...

saying in the news release that the Treasury’s hidden chamber was “perhaps the most significant tomb ever found at Petra and a discovery of historic proportions.” Especially, since nearly ...

At the heart of the ancient city of Petra, Jordan, carved into pink sandstone cliffs, lies an elaborate monument known as the Khaznah, or the Treasury. And buried beneath that edifice, archaeologists ...