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Jordan

A painted arch divided into squares by decorative lines, and with pictures of people or animals within each square.

Quseir Amra

An 8th-century desert castle with unusual Umayyad-period frescoes.

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High stone walls on two sides, with huge rectangular blocks. People standing at the base of the wall, quite nearby it.

Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls

An ancient and disputed city, holy to three major religions.

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Two camels lying down in the foreground, desert floor beyond them and huge rocky mountains behind that.

Wadi Rum Protected Area

A desert landscape known for its beauty as well as its archeological importance.

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Tombs cut into a cliff: several stories tall, with just a doorway in each, and decorative carving around doors and top of each.

Petra

A 2000-year-old Nabatean archeological site with hundreds of tombs and temples carved from sandstone cliffs.

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