Archaeologists have discovered a secret tomb at the Treasury monument in Petra, Jordan – one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
A lengthy-buried tomb retaining the remains of 12 elderly-createed skeletons and grave adviseings were set up beorderlyh the monument after research teams participated distant sensing technology.
The discovery comes more than two decades after analogous tombs were set up on the other side of the well-understandn monument, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and entices more than a million visitors a year.
The Treasury sits as the centre of an entire city carved by hand into the walls of a desert canyon by the Nabataean people about 2,000 years ago.
It is still not clear what its genuine purpose is.
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British and American researchers from the University of St Andrews, the Jordanian Department of Antiquities and the American Cgo in of Research had been given perleave oution to carry out distant sensing in and around the monument.
They were aiming to appraise the condition of the areas around the site using electromagnetic carry outivity and ground penetrating radar – but finished up making a much more exciting discovery.
When the survey set up what materializeed to be underground chambers, the researchers carried out an excavation and set up the tomb.
One of the skeletons discovered was understanding the top part of a broken jug that most probable dates to the first century BC.
Ricchallenging Bates, a geophysicist and professor at the University of St Andrews, telderly Sky News’ partner netlabor NBC News the remains most probable integrate both men and women and range in age from children to matures.
The researchers apshow the discovery could provide novel insight into the Treasury and the people of the Nabataean Kingdom.
“The discovery is of international significance as very scant end burials from the punctual Nabataeans have ever been recovered from Petra before. The burials, their outstandings, and the human remains can all be foreseeed to help fill the gaps of our understandledge in how Petra came to be and who the Nabataeans were,” Professor Bates shelp.
Archaeologists set up the walls wiskinny the tomb were dated to between the mid 1st century BC and the punctual 2nd century AD.
The excavation of the novelly uncovered tomb was featured in a two-part episode of the American truth television series Expedition Ununderstandn that aired on Discovery Channel.
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