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  Tuesday  June 10  2003    11: 21 AM

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Petra the forgotten City - View the Treasury in Petra as Indiana Jones did.

The City of Petra was hidden in the mountains of Jordan for thousands of years when a young Swiss explorer Johan Ludwig Burckhardt rediscovered it in 1812. Temples, tombs, and other buildings are all carved out of the sandstone cliffs, which also gives it the name the "rose red city". In the last scenes of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade the Treasury serves as a secret temple lost for hundreds of years. And that is actually what it is. This place is impossible to capture in a normal still image. You have to visit it, or the next best - You can see it in a cubic QTVR as here in Greg Downings panorama made last year as an assignment for Intel.


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