Life imitates art as the location used for the Temple of the Holy Grail in the 1989 Steven Spielberg film Indiana Jones ...

UNESCO inscribed the city’s ruins as a World Heritage site in 1985, and the 1989 film Indiana Jones ... Treasury, is just one of the many facades carved into the mountains of ancient Petra.

“Today, Petra, the Rose City ... Holy Grail” depicted in Steven Spielberg’s “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” which filmed at the Treasury. “It was the ultimate moment of life ...

For more than two millenia, the elaborate sandstone pillars of the Treasury have greeted arrivals to Petra. Photograph by Luis Marden The Swiss explorer had to manage his astonishment. A ...