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The rose-red city carved from living rock

Ad Deir ("The Monastery"; Arabic: الدير ) is a monumental building carved out of rock in the ancient Jordanian city of Petra. Built by the Nabataeans in the 1st century and measuring 50 meters wide by
Ad Deir ("The Monastery"; Arabic: الدير ) is a monumental building carved out of rock in the ancient Jordanian city of Petra. Built by the Nabataeans in the 1st century and measuring 50 meters wide… © Jorge Láscar from Australia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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