A Land That Time Forgot

Posted by alexdpx (Manila, Philippines) on 2 February 2009 in Architecture and Portfolio.

The site remained unknown to the Western world until 1812, when it was discovered by Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt. It was famously described as "a rose-red city half as old as time" in a Newdigate prize-winning sonnet by John William Burgon. UNESCO has described it as "one of the most precious cultural properties of man's cultural heritage." In 1985, Petra was designated a World Heritage Site.

Source: Wikipedia

A glimpse of The Treasury from the Siq.

Listed on Photoblogs.org