The Siq, the narrow slot-canyon that serves as the entrance passage to the hidden city of Petra, Jordan

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Petra. The name Treasury is derived from a tale that an Egyptian pharaoh hid a treasure here, but it fact the Treasury is a tomb for one of the Nabataean kings who built the city from 600 BC

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