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Relief carving on Treasury, Petra, Jordan

Relief carving of winged figure 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

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Relief carving of winged figure 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