Students: Enrico T. Ribeiro e Gabriel Naves Teacher: Estela Vale Group: T5 - Downtown The New Seven Wonders of the World - Petra

It’s a city in the eastern flank of Arabah. It’s in Jordan hidden by mountains on the south of “Mar Morto” (The Dead Sea). Petra is an unfinished work and its construction started in the Persian Empire, from the VI century b.C. until at least the beginning of the XII century. The city of Petra is Jordan's main tourist attraction and houses the imposing temple Hellenistic "The Treasury (El-Khazneh)”. Petra

Do you know that Petra has a theater made of stone in Greco-Roman style with a capacity for 4000 people? Archaeologists say that the city was carved through the fault of major earthquakes that shook the region and has always destroyed the homes of residents? They’ve chosen the location because of its security in a sheltered site, there is water and the ability to control the caravan routes of transport? Petra was built by the Nabateans? Petra

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