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Kingdom of the Caravans: Petra: UNESCO Culture Sector

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In the desert of Southern Jordan, the Bedouin have made the ancient city of Petra, a base for their nomadic life for generations. A deep and narrow passage runs through a crack in the rock. The 2000-year old city of Petra lies below. The gorge walls are 100 meters high. At the bottom runs a narrow corridor 1.5km long.

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Kingdom of the Caravans, Petra. 00:00:00
In the desert of southern Jordan, 00:00:07
the Bedouin have made the ancient city of Petra 00:00:09
a base for their nomadic life for generations. 00:00:12
A deep and narrow passage runs through a crack in the rock. 00:00:17
The 2,000-year-old city of Petra lies below. 00:00:21
The gorge walls are 100 metres high. 00:00:26
At the bottom runs a narrow corridor, 00:00:32
one and a half kilometres long. 00:00:34
Petra, meaning rock in Greek, 00:00:37
was built in 200 BC as the capital of the Nabataean kingdom. 00:00:39
The site was known only to the Bedouin 00:00:44
until a Swiss scholar discovered it in 1812. 00:00:46
There's a 30-metre tall monument at the end of the corridor. 00:00:51
It's Petra's most elaborate monument, 00:00:55
Al-Qazneh, the treasury of the king. 00:00:58
Petra enjoyed the peak of its prosperity 00:01:03
during the 1st century BC, 00:01:05
when it had 30,000 inhabitants. 00:01:07
The ancestors of the Nabataean people 00:01:13
traded spices from the Arabian Peninsula and India 00:01:15
to the Mediterranean and Egypt. 00:01:18
The Nabataeans used their wealth to build this kingdom 00:01:22
and rule the caravans of the desert. 00:01:24
The monuments were sculpted from sandstone, 00:01:32
ideal for detailed and elaborate sculpture work. 00:01:34
The sculptures are a testimony to the various cultures 00:01:39
that influenced the city. 00:01:41
The Amazoness from the Greek legends 00:01:44
and the Egyptian goddess Isis. 00:01:46
There is also an Assyrian god. 00:01:48
Around 500 or so royal tombs are hewn from the rock. 00:01:55
Believing in life after death, 00:01:59
the most powerful people competed with each other 00:02:01
to build a tomb. 00:02:03
The largest is on top of a 1,000-metre high mountain. 00:02:08
The monument is said to be the place 00:02:12
where the sun was worshipped. 00:02:13
It tells us about the wealth and power of the kingdom. 00:02:16
The city was later overtaken by the Romans, 00:02:20
and the Petra that once was became history. 00:02:24
All that remained were ruins that only the Bedouin knew about. 00:02:28
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NHK World Heritage 100 Series - UNESCO
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Fecha:
1 de junio de 2007 - 10:52
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Enlace Relacionado:
UNESCO
Duración:
02′ 40″
Relación de aspecto:
4:3 Hasta 2009 fue el estándar utilizado en la televisión PAL; muchas pantallas de ordenador y televisores usan este estándar, erróneamente llamado cuadrado, cuando en la realidad es rectangular o wide.
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