carved out of a sandstone rock face in Petra, Jordan. They found a 'previously unknown' tomb containing 12 skeletal remains ...

In reality, this building, the only example at Petra of a monument not sculpted out of rock, is a large temple. A tetrastyle ... more than 600 hypogea, tombs carved into the rocky walls of the ...

The Nabataeans piped water in from springs outside the city and carved channels into the rock to collect rainwater. They also built dams and reservoirs to store water. Petra contains more than 600 ...