Situated between Red Sea and the dead sea and inhabited since prehistoric times, Petra the Rock-cut capital city of Nabataeans, became during Hellenistic and Roman times a major caravan centre for the incense of Arabia, the silks of China and the spices of India, a crossroads between Arabia, Egypt and Syria Phoenicia. Petra is a half-built, half-carved into the rock, and is surrounded by mountains riddled with passages and gorges. An ingenious water management system allowed the extensive sett