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John and Janice at the Treasury in PetraJordan
5 min read2022

Dateline November 3, 2022, Petra, the Siq and the Treasury

The morning we had been waiting for. Petra, the lost city of the Nabateans, rediscovered for the West in 1812, with our guide Mariam, the first Bedouin woman to guide there. We walked down the long canyon of the Siq, past the dams and carvings, to the moment everyone comes for: the Treasury revealed at the end of the slot, the rose-red facade that Indiana Jones made famous.

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