Nestled amid the rugged desert canyons of southwestern Jordan, where traders and their caravans of camels once carried silk and frankincense, lies the ancient city of Petra. Known as the “Rose City” ...

An enormous ceremonial platform which could be more than 2,000-years-old has been discovered at the ancient city of Petra in Jordan. Satellite imagery and drone photography was used to reveal the ...

Doorsill of the small building on the newly discovered platform in Petra, Jordan (2016) (image credit G. al Faqeer, all images courtesy Sarah Parcak and Christopher Tuttle) A massive monument has been ...

Beneath the sands of the Jordanian World Heritage site Petra sits a giant and unexpected monument "hiding in plain sight." Found not 2,150 years too soon, researchers recently discovered the monument ...

The World Heritage Site at Petra, Jordan still has a few secrets -- one of which has just been discovered thanks to aerial technology. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you ...

Hundreds of thousands of tourists flock to the ancient ruins of Petra every year. And they all missed a massive monument hiding in plain sight. Scientists Sarah Parcak and Christopher A. Tuttle used ...

Archaelogists have discovered a huge mysterious structure underneath the earth of one of the wonders of the ancient world. Archaeologists Sarah Parcak and Christopher Tuttle used state-of-the-art ...

A Jordanian Bedouin sits on a camel in front of the treasury building in the ancient city of Petra, Jordan, May 9, 2016. Getty Images Archeologists at the World Heritage site in Petra, Jordan, have ...

The ancient city of Petra may be one of the world’s best-known archaeological sites, but it still has secrets to reveal. A massive “monumental platform” has been discovered within the Petra UNESCO ...

Petra’s Snake Monument in the southern part of the rose-red city offers clues to the role of serpents in Nabataean's religious practices, according to a German scholar. The Snake Monument in the south ...

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Satellite and drone images have led to a new discovery in the ancient city of Petra — a massive man-made stone platform hidden under sand. The platform might have been used for ...