Relief carving on Treasury, Petra, Jordan
Relief carving of man riding horse from the facade of the Treasury of the Pharaohs or Khazneh Firaoun, Petra, Ma'an, Jordan. The Treasury, 100 BC - 200 AD, was originally built as a royal tomb and is so called after a belief that pirates hid their treasure in an urn held here. Carved into the rock face opposite the end of the Siq, the 40m high treasury has a Hellenistic facade with three bare inner rooms. Petra was the capital and royal city of the Nabateans, Arabic desert nomads. Picture by Manuel Cohen
Picture No
13425845
Media ID
45115550
Size
5616px x 3744px
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Credit
Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Manuel Cohen
