About Petra
What is the name of the hidden city in the text?
Petra
What group of people built Petra?
The Nabataeans
About how many years ago did people build Petra?
About 2500 years ago
Where were the buildings in Petra made?
Inside the rocks
What special name do some people call Petra today?
The Rose-Red City
In which country is Petra?
Jordan
What job did Johann Ludwig Burckhardt have?
He was an explorer
For about how many years was Petra a capital city?
About 500 years
What were the rock buildings like?
Like big beautiful caves
Is Petra one of the seven wonders of the world?
Yes
Is Petra in a desert or a forest?
A desert
Which country was Johann Ludwig Burckhardt from?
Switzerland
In what year did the Swiss explorer visit Petra
1812
What do you still see as you walk through Petra today?
The beautiful buildings
Do lots of people visit Petra now?
Yes , lots of people visit every year
What do visitors walk between to reach Petra?
High rock walls
Who was the first European visitor to Petra?
Johann Ludwig Burckhardt
In which year was Petra in the film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade?
1989
Are the buildings of Petra inside flat ground or inside the mountains and rocks?
Inside the mountains and rocks
After Petra was in a movie what happened to the city?
It became famous all over the world
What do visitors see at the end of the path to Petra?
A wonderful view
Which people left Petra and made the city empty?
The Nabataeans
What happened to Petra for hundreds of years after the Nabataeans left?
The city was empty
Why might Petra be called a hidden city based on its buildings?
Because the buildings are inside the rocks and hard to see
What is the name of the movie that helped make Petra famous?
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade