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The rose-red city carved from living rock

Petra, Jordan. 4th century BCE, capital of the Nabataean Empire. Ad Deir ("The Monastery"), also El Deir, a monumental building carved out of rock in the ancient city of Petra.
Petra, Jordan. 4th century BCE, capital of the Nabataean Empire. Ad Deir ("The Monastery"), also El Deir, a monumental building carved out of rock in the ancient city of Petra. © Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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