Figure 2

Map of Petra with the locations of major excavations marked

Jones (2021)

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Names

Transliterated Name	Language	Name
Petra	English
Al-Batrā	Arabic	ٱلْبَتْرَاء‎
Petra	Ancient Greek	Πέτρα‎
Rekeme	Thamudic ?	‎
Raqmu	Arabic	‎
Raqēmō	Arabic	‎

Introduction

Petra is traditionally accessed through a slot canyon known as the Siq. The site was initially inhabited at least as early as the Neolithic and has been settled sporadically ever since - for example in the Biblical Edomite, Hellenistic, Nabatean, Byzantine, and Crusader periods. After the Islamic conquest in the 7th century CE, Petra lost its strategic and commercial value and began to decline until it was "re-discovered" by the Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt in 1812 (Meyers et al, 1997). It is currently a UNESCO World Heritage site and has been and continues to be extensively studied by archeologists.

Notes and Further Reading

References

Korzhenkov, A. et.al., 2016, Следы землетрясений в затерянном городе (Earthquake trails in a lost city), Nature 43

Summary of Archeoseismic Evidence from the 4th-6th centuries in Petra - Jones (2021)

Jones (2021) provided a summary of archeoseismic evidence in Petra which is reproduced below.

Table 1

List of sites in and near Petra (other than al-Zantur) with destructions attributable to earthquakes in 363 AD and the 6th century

Jones (2021)

Map of Major Excavations in Petra - Jones (2021)

Jones (2021) provided a Map of Petra with major excavations which is reproduced below.

Figure 2

Map of Petra with the locations of major excavations marked

Jones (2021)

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Unlocated Archaeoseismic Observations

Figure	Image	Description	Source
6	Figure 6 Location unspecified An open crack (covered with construction debris) in the loose soil, apparently formed during the earthquake of 363 Korzhenkov et al (2016)	open crack	Korzhenkov et al (2016)