Last year, Petra saw a small rebound with more than 620,000 people going, or a 33.7-percent increase from 2016, according to the tourism board. And for their part, Julius said Tourist Israel sends ...

Thanks to Google’s newest 360-degree experience for Google Cardboard, you can take a trip through Petra and more than 30 historical sites across Jordan. It’s an expansion of a project that Google ...

Petra was the capital city of the Nabateans, a pagan civilization that held the popular imagination long before Hollywood took Indiana Jones to the rock city. It was the subject of paintings and poems ...

When it comes to ancient cities, they don’t come much more exotic than Petra in Jordan, made famous by Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and that’s where Google’s Trekker takes us with its latest ...

PETRA, THE ANCIENT CITY sculpted out of the red-rock cliffs in the Jordanian desert, is one of the most renowned archaeological sites in the world. In planning my visit last fall, I assumed it would ...

The Jordanian Society of Travel and Tourism Agents (JSTTA) honored Mr Nasser Kawar, chairman of the Petra Travel and Tourism Company at a special reception for his services to the Jordanian travel and ...

Built over 2,000 years ago, the iconic desert city continues to mesmerize tourists and archaeologists alike. Ad Deir, or the Monastery, is one of Petra's many facades carved out of sandstone in Wadi ...