Aqaba Archaeological Museum is located in the house of Sherif Hussein Bin Ali next to Aqaba Fort. The museum was opened to the public in 1990 and presently houses an important collection from the Isla...
Aqaba’s fort, one of the main historical landmarks of the city, was originally a Crusader Castle but was rebuilt by the Mamelukes in the sixteenth century. Square in shape and flanked by semicircular ...
El Beida is the name given to a small Neolithic site close to the entrance to Little Petra. The site is of much interest to archaeologists as it has revealed many finds from 6 different levels, each r...
The High Place of Sacrifice is accessed by a staircase on the left hand side of the wadi between the Treasury and the theatre. Some historians put forward that this was the place that human and animal...
During the Exodus, Moses and the Israelites passed through the Petra area in what was then the land of Edom. Local tradition says that the spring at Wadi Musa (Valley of Moses), just outside Petra, is...
Called el Barid, the ‘cold one’ in Arabic, Little Petra is a gem for those who can’t get enough of lost cities. The narrow entrance siq leads into a small wadi around 400m in length. Whilst not as ext...
A lonely reminder of former Crusader glory Shobak Castle lies less than an hour north of Petra. Once called "Mont Real" Shobak dates from the same turbulent period as Kerak, the 12th century. It is pe...
