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Location

  • Jordan, Wādī Mūsá
  • geo:30.322174,35.451366

Period or year

  • -50~ / unknown

Classification

  • graves
  • Visible

Petra, Treasury - Al Khazna

data access 31559

The Treasury  - Al Khazna is almost 40 meters and consists of two floors with a width of 25.30 meters and a height of 39.1 meters. According some archaeologists it was a temple. The others thought it was a library storing documents. However recently there were unearthed graveyards beneath. The Treasury dates back to the I century BC.

Sources:

  1. Thomas Paradise, Natural and Anthropogenic Influences on Sandstone Weathering: Lessons learned from Petra, Jordan, Etudes anciennes 52, Des déserts et des hommes : Wadi Ramm (Jordanie) : histoire économique, religieuse, sociale et environnementale : actes du colloque international à Wadi Ramm, les 11, 12 et 13 novembre 2011, Nancy : ADRA, 2013, pp. 371-395 - https://www.academia.edu/7276402
  2. Ioannis Liritzis at all, Nabatean tombs orientation by remote sensing: Provisional results, Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry, Vol. 15, No 3, (2015), pp. 289-299 - https://www.academia.edu/1912388

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2016-12-23) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/31559
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Suggested citation: Elżbieta , Petra, Treasury - Al Khazna. https://vici.org/vici/31559, accessed 2026-11-12.