The lost city of Petra

In 1812 a young Swiss explorer named John Burkhardt disguised himself as an Arab (he spoke perfect Arabic) and hired a Bedouin guide to take him into the Arabian Desert. Under pretext of making a sacrifice at the Shrine of Aaron, Burkhardt entered the desert with a greater ambition: he'd heard talk of a mysterious city within impenetrable mountains, and he suspected it was Petra, lost city of the Nabataeans.

Burkhardt no doubt knew he was onto something when he reached the Siq gorge, a deep, winding ravine sculpted by centuries of wind and water into otherworldly bulges and hollows and scoops and overhangs of smooth, colorful sandstone. A few Egyptian-style obelisks and crude tombs near the gorge entrance hinted at splendor to come. Burkhardt and his guide continued through the narrow, 1.5 kilometer-long chasm until Siq gorge finally offered up its secret: Al-Khazneh Farun (the Treasury), an ornate, pillared, 45-meter high structure carved into the face of a red sandstone cliff. Burkhardt (who went on to "discover" Abu Simbel) was the first Westerner to admire the building in over 700 years.

Nearly two hundred years later, following Burkhardt's route through winding, suspense-building Siq gorge to gaze upon the Treasury and other monuments of Petra. Although Petra is anything but a lost city these days.
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