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7 Wonders

Petra survived on brilliant water engineering 

The Nabataeans carved a city into desert sandstone and kept it alive with dams, cisterns and ceramic pipes that captured flash floods and delivered steady drinking water.

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7 Wonders

Petra was unknown to the West until 1812

Local Bedouin always knew the city, but Europeans learned of it when Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt disguised himself as a pilgrim to reach the hidden valley.

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Monuments

A city carved into a cliff face

Petra was cut directly into rose-red sandstone by the Nabataeans, who also engineered dams and channels that kept a desert city supplied with water.

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