Packs of visitors inched along, brandishing maps and sunscreen ... and according to Jordan’s Princess Dana Firas, the head of the Petra National Trust, the data will help identify and measure ...

the Jordan Pass allows you to waive visa fees on arrival and provides free entry to most major attractions, including Wadi Rum, Jerash and, of course, Petra.

Located in western Jordan, Petra was built in the first century ... fourth and sixth centuries A.D. It was not even on Western maps until it was rediscovered in 1812 by the Swiss traveler Johann ...

Petra, in southern Jordan, is a love letter to human civilisation ... When Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt put it on the archaeological map in 1812, it was a ghost town, following ...