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Rock-cut sites in Jordan · Mysteria

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Rock-cut sites in Jordan

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🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village

Baʿja

Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B · Arabah/South Levantine LPPNB (Basta–Ba'ja horizon)

LPPNB cliff-gorge two-storey village with siq entry, burned houses and children's mass-grave.

✓VerifiedUNESCO

🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city

Petra

Nabataean to Roman (312 BCE–363 CE earthquake) · Nabataean / Arab

Nabataean caravan city (312 BCE–106 CE) carved into sandstone cliffs: Al-Khazneh Treasury, Theatre, Monastery Ad-Deir, Royal Tombs, and hydraulic system capturing desert flash floods.

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🇯🇴 Jordan · Temple complex

Petra – Al-Khazneh & Ad-Deir Precincts

Nabataean 1st c BCE–1st c CE · Nabataean

Detailed precinct within Petra (already listed as city) – but as distinct temple elaboration: Al-Khazneh 40 m façade and Ad-Deir 50 m, both tombs-temples with Hellenistic façades.