By Steven Foster
Here’s a link to 96 images I took along the Siq at Petra. The Siq is a narrow gorge split between mountains forming the main passage into the Nabataean city of Petra, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Jordan. Along the way one sees an impressive carved water channel and carved symbols of Nabataean gods. The natural sandstone is of spectaular beauty. Petra is an ancient city believed built by Nabataean Arabs around the 300 B.C.E., though remains of a neolithic settlement 10,000 years old are found at this extraordinary site where local Bedouin tribes lived among the ruins into the 1980s.