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| This article is about the ancient Jordanian city of Petra. | WIKI |
| For other uses, see Petra (disambiguation). | WIKI |
| Petra xf0x90xa2x9axf0x90xa2x9bxf0x90xa2x93xf0x90xa2x88 From top left to right: the Urn Tombs, en-Nejr theatre, Al-Khazneh (Treasury), Qasr al-Bint temple and view of Ad Deir (Monastery) trail.LocationMa'an Governorate, JordanCoordinates30xc2xb019xe2x80xb243xe2x80xb3N 35xc2xb026xe2x80xb231xe2x80xb3Exefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf30.32861xc2xb0N 35.44194xc2xb0Exefxbbxbf / 30.32861; 35.44194Coordinates: 30xc2xb019xe2x80xb243xe2x80xb3N 35xc2xb026xe2x80xb231xe2x80xb3Exefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf30.32861xc2xb0N 35.44194xc2xb0Exefxbbxbf / 30.32861; 35.44194Area264 square kilometres (102xc2xa0sqxc2xa0mi)[1]Elevation810xc2xa0m (2,657xc2xa0ft)Builtpossibly as early as 5th century BC [2]Visitors1,135,300xc2xa0(in 2019)Governing bodyPetra Region AuthorityWebsitewww.visitpetra.joLocation of Petra xf0x90xa2x9axf0x90xa2x9bxf0x90xa2x93xf0x90xa2x88 in Jordan UNESCO World Heritage SiteCriteriaCultural: i, iii, ivReference326Inscription1985 (9th session) | WIKI |
| Petra (Arabic: xd9xb1xd9x84xd9x92xd8xa8xd9x8exd8xaaxd9x92xd8xb1xd9x8exd8xa7xd8xa1xe2x80x8e, romanized:xc2xa0Al-Batrxc4x81xcaxbe; Ancient Greek: xcexa0xcexadxcfx84xcfx81xcexb1, "Rock"), originally known to its inhabitants in as Raqmu or Raqxc4x93mxc5x8d (xf0x90xa2x9axf0x90xa2x9bxf0x90xa2x93xf0x90xa2x88),[3][4] is a historic and archaeological city in southern Jordan. | WIKI |
| [5] The area around Petra has been inhabited from as early as 7000xc2xa0BC,[6] and the Nabataeans might have settled in what would become the capital city of their kingdom, as early as the 4th century BC. | WIKI |
| [7] Archaeological work has only discovered evidence of Nabataean presence dating back to the second century BC,[8] by which time Petra had become their capital. | WIKI |
| [6] The Nabataeans were nomadic Arabs who invested in Petra's proximity to the incense trade routes by establishing it as a major regional trading hub. | WIKI |
| The trading business gained the Nabataeans considerable revenue and Petra became the focus of their wealth. | WIKI |
| Petra flourished in the 1st century AD, when its famous Al-Khazneh structure xe2x80x93 believed to be the mausoleum of Nabataean king Aretas IV xe2x80x93 was constructed, and its population peaked at an estimated 20,000 inhabitants. | WIKI |
| Petra fell to the Romans, who annexed Nabataea and renamed it as Arabia Petraea. | WIKI |
| [11] Petra's importance declined as sea trade routes emerged, and after an earthquake in 363 destroyed many structures. | WIKI |
| Famous for its rock-cut architecture and water conduit system, Petra is also called the "Rose City" because of the colour of the stone from which it is carved. | WIKI |
| UNESCO has described Petra as "one of the most precious cultural properties of man's cultural heritage". | WIKI |
| [15] Petra is a symbol of Jordan, as well as Jordan's most-visited tourist attraction. | WIKI |
| Contents 1 Importance in antiquity 2 Description 2.1 Water control 2.2 Access routes 2.3 City centre 2.4 Exterior platform 3 Tourism 4 Climate 5 History 5.1 Neolithic 5.2 Bronze Age 5.3 Iron Age Edom 5.4 The emergence of Petra 5.4.1 Petra as "Rekem" 5.4.2 Petra as "Sela" 5.5 Roman period 5.6 Byzantine period 5.7 Crusaders and Mamluks 5.8 19th and 20th centuries 6 Religion 7 UNESCO listing of ancient Petra and Bedouin heritage 8 Issues 9 Conservation 9.1 Conservation of cultural heritage 10 In popular culture 10.1 Literature 10.2 Plays 10.3 Films 10.4 Television 10.5 Music and musical videos 10.6 Video games 11 3D documentation 12 Gallery 13 See also 14 References 15 External links | WIKI |
| Map of Petra | WIKI |
| Pliny the Elder and other writers identify Petra as the capital of the Nabataean Kingdom and the centre of their caravan trade. | WIKI |
| Enclosed by towering rocks and watered by a perennial stream, Petra not only possessed the advantages of a fortress, but controlled the main commercial routes which passed through it to Gaza in the west, to Bosra and Damascus in the north, to Aqaba and Leuce Come on the Red Sea, and across the desert to the Persian Gulf. | WIKI |
| The narrow passage (Siq) that leads to Petra | WIKI |
| In ancient times, Petra might have been approached from the south on a track leading across the plain of Petra, around Jabal Haroun ("Aaron's Mountain"), the location of the Tomb of Aaron, said to be the burial place of Aaron, brother of Moses. | WIKI |
| At the end of the narrow gorge, the Siq, stands Petra's most elaborate ruin, popularly known as Al-Khazneh ("the Treasury"), hewn into the sandstone cliff. | WIKI |
| The Petra Pool and Garden Complex is a series of structures within the city center. | WIKI |
| Most visitors stay in Petra town's many international-standard hotels with reasonably-short walking access to Petra. | WIKI |
| [29] Visitors sometimes include those who have hiked or raced across Jordan's southern deserts to get to Petra. | WIKI |
| In Petra, there is a semi-arid climate. | WIKI |
| The average annual temperature in Petra is 15.5xc2xa0xc2xb0C (59.9xc2xa0xc2xb0F). | WIKI |
| Climate data for Petra Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year Average high xc2xb0C (xc2xb0F) 11.0(51.8) 13.1(55.6) 16.6(61.9) 20.9(69.6) 25.1(77.2) 28.6(83.5) 29.8(85.6) 30.0(86.0) 28.1(82.6) 24.6(76.3) 18.2(64.8) 13.4(56.1) 21.6(70.9) Average low xc2xb0C (xc2xb0F) 2.2(36.0) 2.8(37.0) 5.6(42.1) 8.7(47.7) 11.7(53.1) 14.1(57.4) 16.1(61.0) 16.5(61.7) 14.2(57.6) 11.2(52.2) 7.1(44.8) 3.4(38.1) 9.5(49.1) Average precipitation mm (inches) 45(1.8) 38(1.5) 36(1.4) 12(0.5) 4(0.2) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 2(0.1) 15(0.6) 41(1.6) 193(7.6) Source: Climate-Data.org,Climate data | WIKI |
| By 7000 BCE, some of the earliest recorded farmers had settled in Beidha, a Pre-Pottery Neolithic settlement just north of Petra. | WIKI |
| Petra is listed in Egyptian campaign accounts and the Amarna letters as Pel, Sela or Seir. | WIKI |
| The Edomite site excavated at the top of the Umm el-Biyara mountain at Petra was established not earlier than the seventh century BCE (Iron II). | WIKI |
| The emergence of Petra[edit] | WIKI |
| [31] Current evidence suggests that the Nabataean name for Petra was Raqxc4x93mxc5x8d, variously spelled in inscriptions as rqmw or rqm. | WIKI |
| Petra as "Rekem"[edit] | WIKI |
| Josephus mentions that the city, called Petra by the Greeks, "ranks highest in the land of the Arabs" and was still called Rekeme by all the Arabs of his time, after its royal founder (Antiquities iv. | WIKI |
| Petra as "Sela"[edit] | WIKI |
| See also: Sela (Edom) xc2xa7xc2xa0Confusion with Petra | WIKI |
| An old theory held that Petra might be identified with a place called sela in the Hebrew Bible. | WIKI |
| 94xe2x80x9397) which describes the expeditions which Antigonus sent against the Nabataeans in 312 BCE, was understood by some researchers xe2x80x93 and not so by others xe2x80x93 to throw some light upon the history of Petra, but the "petra" (Greek for rock) referred to as a natural fortress and place of refuge cannot be a proper name, and the description implies that there was no town in existence there at the time. | WIKI |
| Roman bronze coin of Geta showing the Petra temple with statue of Tyche | WIKI |
| In AD 106, when Cornelius Palma was governor of Syria, the part of Arabia under the rule of Petra was absorbed into the Roman Empire as part of Arabia Petraea, and Petra became its capital. | WIKI |
| It was around this time that the Petra Roman Road was built. | WIKI |
| 130xe2x80x93270) grew in importance and attracted the Arabian trade away from Petra, the latter declined. | WIKI |
| Between 111 and 114, Trajan built the Via Traiana Nova, running from the Syrian border to the Red Sea through Petra. | WIKI |
| In 125 AD, one of Emperor Hadrian's administrators left marks[dubious xe2x80x93 discuss] in Petra, pointed out by documents found at the Dead Sea. | WIKI |
| In 130 AD, Hadrian visited the former Nabataean capital, giving it the name of Hadriane Petra Metropolis, imprinted on his coins. | WIKI |
| The interest that Roman emperors showed for the city in the 3rd century suggests that Petra and its environs remained highly esteemed for a long time. | WIKI |
| Emperor Elagabalus declared Petra to be a Roman colony, when he reorganised the Roman Empire towards the end of the 3rd century. | WIKI |
| [38] The area from Petra to Wadi Mujib, the Negev, and the Sinai Peninsula were annexed into the province of Palaestina Salutaris. | WIKI |
| Petra may be seen on the Madaba mosaic map from the reign of Emperor Justinian. | WIKI |
| Petra declined rapidly under Roman rule, in large part from the revision of sea-based trade routes. | WIKI |
| [39] The old city of Petra was the capital of the Byzantine province of Palaestina III and many churches from the Byzantine period were excavated in and around Petra. | WIKI |
| [40] The Byzantine Church is a prime example of monumental architecture in Byzantine Petra. | WIKI |
| The last reference to Byzantine Petra comes from the Spiritual Meadow of John Moschus, written in the first decades of the 7th century. | WIKI |
| Petra is not mentioned in the narratives of the Muslim conquest of the Levant, nor does it appear in any early Islamic records. | WIKI |
| In the 12th century, the Crusaders built fortresses such as the Alwaeira Castle, but were forced to abandon Petra after a while. | WIKI |
| As a result, the location of Petra was lost for the Western world until the 19th century. | WIKI |
| Two further Crusader-period castles are known in and around Petra: the first is al-Wu'ayra, situated just north of Wadi Musa. | WIKI |
| It can be viewed from the road to Little Petra. | WIKI |
| The second is on the summit of el-Habis, in the heart of Petra, and can be accessed from the West side of the Qasr al-Bint. | WIKI |
| The ruins of Petra were an object of curiosity during the Middle Ages and were visited by Baibars, one of the first Mamluk sultans of Egypt, towards the end of the 13th century. | WIKI |
| View of the Royal Tombs in Petra | WIKI |
| [5][44] At that time, the Greek Church of Jerusalem operated a diocese in Al Karak named Battra (xd8xa8xd8xa7xd8xb7xd8xb1xd9x87 in Arabic, and xcexa0xcexadxcfx84xcfx81xcexb1xcfx82 in Greek) and it was the opinion among the clergy of Jerusalem that Kerak was the ancient city of Petra. | WIKI |
| Lxc3xa9on de Laborde and Louis-Maurice-Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds made the first accurate drawings of Petra in 1828. | WIKI |
| [45] The Scottish painter David Roberts visited Petra in 1839 and returned to England with sketches and stories of the encounter with local tribes, published in The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia. | WIKI |
| Frederic Edwin Church, the leading American landscape painter of the 19th century, visited Petra in 1868, and the resulting painting El Khasnxc3xa9, Petra is among his most important and well-documented. | WIKI |
| Petra Siq in 1947 (left) compared with the same location in 2013 | WIKI |
| In 1929, a four-person team, consisting of British archaeologists Agnes Conway and George Horsfield, Palestinian physician and folklore expert Dr Tawfiq Canaan and Dr Ditlef Nielsen, a Danish scholar, excavated and surveyed Petra. | WIKI |
| The archaeologist Philip Hammond from the University of Utah visited Petra for nearly 40 years. | WIKI |
| Numerous scrolls in Greek and dating to the Byzantine period were discovered in an excavated church near the Temple of the Winged Lions in Petra in December 1993. | WIKI |
| The Great Temple of Petra | WIKI |
| New evidence indicates that broader Edomite, and Nabataean theology had strong links to Earth-Sun relationships, often manifested in the orientation of prominent Petra structures to equinox and solstice sunrises and sunsets. | WIKI |
| A stele dedicated to Qos-Allah 'Qos is Allah' or 'Qos the god', by Qosmilk (melech xe2x80x93 king) is found at Petra (Glueck 516). | WIKI |
| The stele is horned and the seal from the Edomite Tawilan near Petra identified with Kaush displays a star and crescent (Browning 28), both consistent with a moon deity. | WIKI |
| Recently, Petra has been put forward as the original "Mecca" by some in the revisionist school of Islamic studies, owing to claims of large numbers of independent pieces of evidence,[citation needed] namely that the early original mosques faced Petra, not Jerusalem or Mecca, as the direction of Muslim prayer, the Qibla. | WIKI |
| [51] However, others have challenged the notion of comparing modern readings of Qiblah directions to early mosquesxe2x80x99 Qiblahs as they claim early Muslims could not accurately calculate the direction of the Qiblah to Mecca and so the apparent pinpointing of Petra by some early mosques may well be coincidental. | WIKI |
| [52] Petra (Raqxc4x93mxc5x8d) does receive mention in the Qur'an in the Surah al-Kahf as xd8xa7xd9x84xd8xb1xd9x82xd9x8axd9x85 al-Raqxc4xabm. | WIKI |
| The Monastery, Petra's largest monument, dates from the 1st century BC. | WIKI |
| The temple is located in Petra's so-called Sacred Quarter, an area situated at the end of Petra's main Colonnaded Street consisting of two majestic temples, the Qasr al-Bint and, opposite, the Temple of the Winged Lions on the northern bank of Wadi Musa. | WIKI |
| Christianity found its way to Petra in the 4th century AD, nearly 500 years after the establishment of Petra as a trade centre. | WIKI |
| Athanasius mentions a bishop of Petra (Anhioch. | WIKI |
| After the Islamic conquest of 629xe2x80x93632, Christianity in Petra, as of most of Arabia, gave way to Islam. | WIKI |
| During the First Crusade Petra was occupied by Baldwin I of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and formed the second fief of the barony of Al Karak (in the lordship of Oultrejordain) with the title Chxc3xa2teau de la Valxc3xa9e de Moyse or Sela. | WIKI |
| According to Arab tradition, Petra is the spot where Musa (Moses) struck a rock with his staff and water came forth, and where Moses' brother, Harun (Aaron), is buried, at Mount Hor, known today as Jabal Haroun or Mount Aaron. | WIKI |
| The Wadi Musa or "Wadi of Moses" is the Arab name for the narrow valley at the head of which Petra is sited. | WIKI |
| UNESCO listing of ancient Petra and Bedouin heritage[edit] | WIKI |
| Petra at night | WIKI |
| In 1985, the Bedul Bedouin were resettled from their cave dwellings in Petra to Umm Sayhoun by the Jordanian government and UNESCO. | WIKI |
| Among the six communities in the Petra Region, Umm Sayhoun is one of the smaller communities. | WIKI |
| On December 6, 1985, Petra was designated a World Heritage Site. | WIKI |
| The Petra Archaeological Park (PAP) became an autonomous legal entity over the management of this site in August 2007. | WIKI |
| In 2011, following an 11-month project planning phase, the Petra Development and Tourism Region Authority in association with DesignWorkshop and JCP s.r.l published a Strategic Master Plan that guides planned development of the Petra Region. | WIKI |
| This is intended to guide planned development of the Petra Region in an efficient, balanced and sustainable way over the next 20 years for the benefit of the local population and of Jordan in general. | WIKI |
| a socio-economic perspective the perspective of Petra Archaeological Park the perspective of Petra's tourism product a land use perspective an environmental perspective | WIKI |
| In an attempt to reduce the impact of these threats, the Petra National Trust (PNT) was established in 1989. | WIKI |
| It has worked with numerous local and international organisations on projects that promote the protection, conservation, and preservation of the Petra site. | WIKI |
| They chose Petra as its first and the most important example of threatened landscapes. | WIKI |
| The presentation Tourism and Archaeological Heritage Management at Petra: Driver to Development or Destruction? | WIKI |
| People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) released a video in 2018 highlighting abuse against working animals in Petra. | WIKI |
| Petra is a site at the intersection of natural and cultural heritage forming a unique cultural landscape. | WIKI |
| Ever since Johann Ludwig Burckhardt[67] aka Sheikh Ibrahim had re-discovered the ruin city in Petra, Jordan, in 1812, the cultural heritage site has attracted different people who shared an interest in the ancient history and culture of the Nabataeans such as travellers, pilgrims, painters and savants. | WIKI |
| [69] Since then regular archaeological excavations[70] and ongoing research on the Nabataean culture have been part of today's UNESCO world cultural heritage site Petra. | WIKI |
| [71] Through the excavations in the Petra Archaeological Park an increasing number of Nabataean cultural heritage is being exposed to environmental impact. | WIKI |
| In recent years different conservation campaigns and projects were established at the cultural heritage site of Petra. | WIKI |
| This project was funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) 1974 - 1990 Conservation work in the excavated area of the Winged Lions Temple 1981 Different restoration works by the Department of Antiquities of Jordan[75] 1985 Restoration works at the Qasr El Bint Temple by the Department of Antiquities of Jordan[76] 1990 - 1998 Excavation and Conservation of the Byzantine Church by the American Centre of Oriental Research (ACOR) 1992 - 2002 Conservation and Restoration Center in Petra CARCIP, German GTZ Project. | WIKI |
| [77] 1996 onwards, Restoration of the Siq and rehabilitation of the Siq floor by the Petra National Trust foundet by the Jordanian-Swiss counterpart Fund, the Swiss Agency for Development and the World Monuments Fund. | WIKI |
| [78] 2001 Restoration of the altar in front of the Casr Bint Firaun by UNESCO 2003 Development of a conservation and maintenace plan of the ancient drainage systems to protect the rock-cut facades[72] 2003 - 2017 Evaluation of desalination and restoration at the tomb facades[79] 2006 - 2010 Preservation and consolidation of the Wall Paintings in Siq al Barid by the Petra National Trust in cooperation with the Department of Antiquities of Jordan and the Courtauld Institute of Art (London). | WIKI |
| 2009 onwards, renewed effort to preserve and rehabilitate the Winged Lions Temple by The Temple of the Winged Lions Cultural Management (TWLCRM) Initiative, the Petra Archaeological Park (PAP) and the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 2016 - 2019 Characterisation and Conservation of Paintings on Walls and Sculpture from Nabataean Petra "The Petra Painting Conservation Project (PPCP)",[80] funded by the German Research Foundation (Project number 285789434). | WIKI |
| In 1845, British poet John William Burgon won Oxford University's Newdigate Prize for his poem "Petra", containing the famous description "...a rose-red city half as old as time". | WIKI |
| Petra appeared in the novels Left Behind Series; Appointment with Death; The Eagle in the Sand; The Red Sea Sharks, the nineteenth book in The Adventures of Tintin series; and in Kingsbury's The Moon Goddess and the Son. | WIKI |
| In Blue Balliett's novel, Chasing Vermeer, the character Petra Andalee is named after the site. | WIKI |
| [82] In 1979 Marguerite van Geldermalsen from New Zealand married Mohammed Abdullah, a Bedouin in Petra. | WIKI |
| [83] They lived in a cave in Petra until the death of her husband. | WIKI |
| Van Geldermalsen is the only western woman who has ever lived in a Petra cave. | WIKI |
| An Englishwoman, Joan Ward, wrote Living With Arabs: Nine Years with the Petra Bedouin[84] documenting her experiences while living in Umm Sayhoun with the Petra Bedouin, covering the period 2004xe2x80x932013. | WIKI |
| The playwright John Yarbrough's tragicomedy, Petra,[85] debuted at the Manhattan Repertory Theatre in 2014[86] and was followed by award-winning performances at the Hudson Guild in New York in 2015. | WIKI |
| Petra appeared in episode 20 of Misaeng. | WIKI |
| [90][91] Petra appeared in an episode of Time Scanners, made for National Geographic, where six ancient structures were laser scanned, with the results built into 3D models. | WIKI |
| [92] Examining the model of Petra revealed insights into how the structure was built. | WIKI |
| [93] Petra was the focus of an American PBS Nova special, "Petra: Lost City of Stone",[94] which premiered in the US and Europe in February 2015. | WIKI |
| Petra is central to Netflix's first Arabic original series Jinn, which is a young adult supernatural drama about magical genies in the ancient city of Petra. | WIKI |
| Petra was the focus of Season 1, Episode 3 of An Idiot Abroad. | WIKI |
| Six months after a deadly hike by two Israelis in 1958, Haim Hefer wrote the lyrics for a ballad called Ha-Sela ha-Adom ("The Red Rock")[96] In 1977, the Lebanese Rahbani brothers wrote the musical Petra as a response to the Lebanese Civil War. | WIKI |
| [98] In 1994, Petra appeared in the video for the Urban Species single "Spiritual Love". | WIKI |
| [99] In 1994 Israeli pop singer Dana International included a song called "Nosa'at LePet'ra" (Hebrew; "Going to Petra") in her album Umpatampa. | WIKI |
| Petra appears as a free-play map in the video game Overwatch Petra appears as a constructable world wonder in the fifth and sixth editions of the video game series Civilization In the 2008 video game Sonic Unleashed, the village of Shamar draws inspiration from Petra. | WIKI |
| Some of the structures in the Petra Archaeological Park were spatially documented by the Zamani Project and are visible on the maDIH repository. | WIKI |
| The Obelisk Tomb Qasr al-Bint The Hadrian Gate also known as the Temenos Gate The Garden Temple The Colored Triclinium Tomb of the Roman Soldier The Urn Tomb The Palace Tomb Rock graves Petra Monastery Trail Street of Facades Petra Pool and Garden Complex | WIKI |
| Petra is half-built, half-carved into the rock, and is surrounded by mountains riddled with passages and gorges. | UNESCO |
| The Outstanding Universal Value of Petra resides in the vast extent of elaborate tomb and temple architecture; religious high places; the remnant channels, tunnels and diversion dams that combined with a vast network of cisterns and reservoirs which controlled and conserved seasonal rains, and the extensive archaeological remains including of copper mining, temples, churches and other public buildings. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (iii): The serried rows of numerous rock-cut tombs reflecting architectural influences from the Assyrians through to monumental Hellenistic; the sacrificial and other religious high places including on Jebels Madbah, M'eisrah, Khubtha, Habis and Al Madras; the remains of the extensive water engineering system, city walls and freestanding temples; garden terraces; funerary stelae and inscriptions together with the outlying caravan staging posts on the approaches from the north (Barid or Little Petra) and south (Sabra) also containing tombs, temples, water cisterns and reservoirs are an outstanding testament to the now lost Nabataean civilization of the fourth century BC to the first century AD. | UNESCO |
| Remains of the Neolithic settlement at Beidha, the Iron Age settlement on Umm al Biyara, the Chalcolithic mining sites at Umm al Amad, the remains of Graeco-Roman civic planning including the colonnaded street, triple-arched entrance gate, theatre, Nymphaeum and baths; Byzantine remains including the triple-apses basilica church and the church created in the Urn Tomb; the remnant Crusader fortresses of Habis and Wueira; and the foundation of the mosque on Jebel Haroun, traditionally the burial place of the Prophet Aaron, all bear exceptional testimony to past civilizations in the Petra area. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (iv): The architectural ensemble comprising the so-called "royal tombs" in Petra (including the Khasneh, the Urn Tomb, the Palace Tomb and the Corinthian Tomb), and the Deir ("monastery") demonstrate an outstanding fusion of Hellenistic architecture with Eastern tradition, marking a significant meeting of East and West at the turn of the first millennium of our era. | UNESCO |
| All the main freestanding and rock-cut monuments and extensive archaeological remains within the arid landscape of red sandstone cliffs and gorges lie within the boundaries of the property that coincide with the boundaries of the Petra National Park. | UNESCO |
| The resettlement more than twenty years ago of the Bdul (Bedouin) tribe and their livestock away from their former seasonal dwellings in the Petra basin to a new village at Umm Sayhun was aimed in part at arresting this process. | UNESCO |
| The property is a protected area within the Petra Archaeological Park managed by the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. | UNESCO |
| However responsibility for the overall planning and implementation of infrastructure projects at the site rests largely with the Petra Regional Authority (PRA) - originally the Petra Regional Planning Council (PRPC) - but now expanded to cover the social and economic wellbeing of the communities in the locality. | UNESCO |
| Regulations and policies developed under the Petra Archaeological Park Operating Plan will cover infrastructure projects undertaken by the PRA including electrification of the Petra Archaeological Park and works associated with water recycling farming projects including tree-planting. | UNESCO |