Petra: A Traveller's Guide

"The vast site is delineated in detail and walks within it are clearly described -- all good and useful", The Weekend TelegraphThe ancient city of Petra, one of the world's most spectacular and popular travel destinations, was, in Nabatean times, a great commercial and cultural centre. Enriched by the lucrative trade in incense, the inhabitants carved lavish funeral monuments into the rose-red cliffs to protect their embalmed remains and immortalize their memory.This updated and revised edition includes comprehensive tours of monuments, tombs and ancient religious sites, detailed maps of walks around the city, frank, practical advice on where to stay and what to take and a complete account of the city's Nabatean, biblical and Roman history.