Petra, Ancient City Carved Out of Rock, Jordan

[translationwiz]

@eabffe My point is that Petra was built by locals. Greeks were there early true. but thats all I will cede.as for the word, i'm not going to split hairs w/you. even if its a rock we are talking about. LOL

peace

[carsophieify]

Wonderful PETRA!!!!!!

[ipc353]

So do you guys believe this was built by human?

[bigjoe777]

Besides... There were other civilization back then that weren't recorded by the Greeks before. Perhaps during a time when the Greeks would only record influentially political, military, or economically powerful civilizations. Perhaps civilizations with culture weren't practically their thing or perhaps off reach. The Moabites are an ancient peoples mentioned in the bible that weren't recorded by the greeks! The Aztecs, Mayans, and other Civilzations like China weren't Recorded by the Greeks.

[bigjoe777]

Geeze louise, Just cause it's named Petra don't mean it was made by the Greeks. Other civilzations have carved rocks in ways we don't even know how they did! In fact, the civilizations then are probably the same with the one now if i were to coin out the term "Cultural Influence". Like our civization today, the intermingling of many international cultures have made caused foreign influence in many local cultures. The same could be said in your "Petra". The place was perhaps architecturally copyd

[translationwiz]

Petra is a greek word(crack in the rock)......thats all.

It was built by the nabateans way before the greeks even discovered it.Egyptians also recorded the location. Many towns and even people(cristos-the christ) were named so b/c it was the greeks who documented them. As many cities/landmarks in Egypt have greek names .. Greek lang. was the language of education. Like latin would later be in Europe. Petra was not a Greek city. .......

peace

[JayBrew391]

@translationwiz petra means "crack in the rock"? doesnt it just mean rock?

[translationwiz]

@JayBrew391 Perhaps.......it depends on context and variance of the language. IF you split up the word.....Pe-tra........it means "You can see"- in some semetic dialects. It also means exposed.......But for the context used by the historians, referring to this location...it means the crack in the rock. Personally, historical terms over time get mistranslated&parts or whole meanings are lost. But I dont want to go down that ave..LOL. LEts rely on the accepted meaning of the historians.

peace

[intrepberkexplorer]

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[aolser10]

send me msn

[intrepberkexplorer]

I do not understand what you are saying or asking for.

[intrepberkexplorer]

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[Torcika]

how did they cut the stone?

[lonedark9]

w0w!

[megapraimturvo]

amazing!!!..would love to visit there...

[Catthief6418]

In the Bible this where God will protect the Jews in the end days

[Son1cMan]

where in the bible say that?

[Catthief6418]

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[Son1cMan]

revelation 27:6??? revelation only haves 22 chapters

[kingi97]

this city is built by arabic tribes, it's ours!

[Valvallaria]

That's why it is build with greek architecture all over, right? sheesh...

[freefapi]

the Nabatean alphabet is the old Arabic alphabet douchebag

white people can't live in the deserts they die

[HojoOSanagi]

Sorry kingi97, but Petra was a Greek built city. That's why the name's Greek and the building is made with Greek architecture.

[freefapi]

it's original name is Sela (Hebrew Sela, rock) Arabic as-Sala

read a book

[mewoone]

@freefapi Yeb and true

[amenardis]

the most beautiful place on the whole world.

[Pickomlat]

Nice... very interesting, i would like to visit it

[umsanad]

seeing it for real is something totally different from watching the video, it is amazing. you would be surprised to learn that they had their own system for pipes, tunnels and channels for drinking water in a very scientific way.

[jonas909]

this is the ancient city where the israelis will take refugee during the last days of the antichrist reign on earth.

but they will be saved by abba yeshua :0

[MJweinat]

To all those that voted for PETRA, THANK YOU.

[MJweinat]

PLEASE VOTE FOR PETRA. This is an urgent plea to everyone out there; we're running out of time, PETRA along with 20 other spectacular sites from around the world, are on there final run to the NEW 7 WONDERS OF THE WORLD, I am urging everyone to vote for PETRA, it's worthy of the title. Just Google N7W

A special call to my fellow-Arabs; spread the word, Lazem Injam el YOUTUBE with requests to vote for PETRA, Ma thal waget. 7ayu Elsha3b El 3arabi. Thank you, your brother, a Jordanian:)

[thegreatestchallenge]

they lived in caves, where's the windows...

[heracles89]

bolu omorfi, i hope to visit their before i die, did you know it was only discovered by the west in 1822 i think.