Al Khazneh

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Al Khazneh
(Treasury)

The Khazneh is the best known of the monuments at Petra. It is over 40m high and carved out from the sandstone cliff wall. It served as a royal tomb but gets its name from the legend that a black magician concealed his treasure here.

 

 
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