What the 12 Skeletons Discovered at Petra Could Tell Us About the Ancient City
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<a href="https://theconversation.com/profiles/claire-isabella-gilmour-1345375" rel="nofollow">Claire Isabella Gilmour[/url]/The Conversation</p>
<p>Twelve skeletons have been found in a large, 2,000-year-old tomb directly in front of the Khazneh (“Treasury”) in the city of Petra in Jordan. Alongside them, excavators have discovered grave goods made of pottery, bronze, iron and ceramics. There is much excitement among archaeologists because of what the rare opportunity to investigate this site might tell us about Petra’s ancient people, the Nabataeans, and their culture.</p>
<p>One of the most headline-grabbing discoveries has been dubbed a? <a href="
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/oct/19/petra-jordan-archaeology-tomb-excavation-nabataean-experts#:%7E:text=Described%20by%20the%20team%20behind,from%20bronze%2C%20iron%20and%20pottery." rel="nofollow">“holy grail”[/url]? in many reports, suggesting that the vessel is similar to the fictional cup from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, also? <a href="
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0TalLrtZ24" rel="nofollow">discovered at the Khazneh[/url]. In fact, it’s a humble jug, not a cup offering the drinker eternal life.</p>
<p>The similarities between the vessels aren’t a case of art imitating life, but the result of painstaking research into Nabataean pottery carried out by? <a href="
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/sfgate/name/deborah-fine-obituary?id=2027145" rel="nofollow">Deborah Fine[/url], who was the director of archives at Lucasfilm Ltd.</p>
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