explore the petra region
Please read the information below!
Please Note: First three options are just images you can examine. You can rotate and pan the second and the third ones, the Fourth option is an interactive map overlaid on a Satellite Image. The features in it are:
Legend:
- Dark Blue Lines: Some Wadis (Valleys) in Petra
- Light Blue Lines: Nabataean water conduits that brought water from upper hill water sources via pressurized clay pipes and/or open channels
- Light Blue Points: Important water sources (ayn in Arabic) in the region plus the Nabataean Zurraba ceramic workshop
- Yellow Points: Location of the more importnat rock-carved facade monuments with their names.
- Orange Points: Represent all kinds of features documented by Talal Akasheh (coordinator of iHeritage for JSSREC) and his team in a project that won him the 2008 Rolex Award for Cultural Heritage.
If you hover with the mouse over the lines and points, information about these features wil pop up.
The Fifth link will show images of some of the more important facades/features in Petra and al-Bayda. Please zoom in several times so you can see overlapping points in the original map. Click at any point to see the corresponding image. Click on the "x" at the top left of the image to go back to the original map.