About 2,000 years ago, the powerful ancient kingdom of the Nabataeans hand-carved a city into the sandstone cliffs of Petra .

Since then, Petra’s fame has grown. UNESCO inscribed the city’s ruins as a World Heritage site in 1985, and the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade used Petra as a stage for some scenes.

Petra, his only poem ... It’s a view familiar to many from the climax of the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. But Burgon would have needed only to look 500km south, across the ...