PETRA... Pink City's second Wonders

 Jordanian city of Petra known visitors Readers in the name of (pink city) relative to the color of the rocks that formed to build unique, a city more like a castle, was the capital of the Nabataeans. Petra also called commodities, a historic city located in southern Jordan 225 km south of the capital, Amman, to the west of the main road that connects the capital city of Amman and Aqaba. Petra is considered the most important archaeological sites in Jordan and in the world for lack unparalleled in the world. Recently won second place in the global contest for the Seven Wonders. Is a complete city carved in the rock pink color (hence the name Petra means rock in Greek) (offset in Nabatieh Rgimo) and Petra also known as the Pink City relative to the color of the rocks that formed to build, a city more like a castle. Nabateans built in the year 400 BC and made them their capital. And in the vicinity of the city there is a mountain of Aaron, who is believed to be the tomb of the Prophet featuring Aaron and seven springs that Moses struck the rock with his rod Vtfjrt. Petra was chosen on 7/7/2007 as one of the New Seven Wonders. You Petra Nabatean capital of the state and the most important cities of their kingdom, which lasted between 400 BC and 106 AD until, has extended its borders from the coast of Ashkelon in Palestine in the west to the desert of the Levant in the east. It is north of Damascus, and even the Red Sea to the south form the Petra site average between the civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula and Egypt's economic importance has held state Nabataeans reins of trade between the civilizations of these regions and their inhabitants were commercial convoys reach them laden with spices and condiments from the southern Arabian Peninsula and silk from Gaza Damascus and henna from Ashkelon and glassware from Tyre and Sidon and the Pearl of the Arabian Gulf. The end of the state of the Nabataeans was at the hands of the Romans when Hasrōh and prevented them 105 years of water sources and named it the Arab state. In the year 636 became Petra live on the rest of the population on agriculture but the quake, which hit 746/748 years and earthquakes dispersal of its people.