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| The great doorway of the Khasneh, Petra's best known monument. |
There is no water here; mirages can be photographed. |
Roman siege ramp and Jewish defences at the citadel of Machaerus. |
Bedu graveyard in Wadi Rum at sunset. |
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| Door hinges from an unexcavated city, buried by the desert sands. |
Top temple this, but how do we spell Nabataean? |
Rock-cut tombs in the Hisma desert, the contents long since looted. |
Wadi running into the Dead Sea through the Moabite hills, where Moses died. |
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| Part of the necropolis at Petra, with the mysterious Nefesh symbol for the souls of the dead. |
This cistern, cut 2,000 years ago, still traps water for the bedouin of Wadi Rum. |
A stroll in the Bayir desert, near Lawrence's camp. |
This tomb near Humeima is a triple-decker, cut to fit three coffins from one family. |
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| Smoke-damaged frescos from a sixth century desert bathhouse. |
The way to the half-excavated city of Humeima, across the Hisma desert. |
Machaerus, Herod's Dead Sea citadel where Salome danced and John theBaptist was beheaded. |
From the sumit of Umm el Biyara; Petra city centre and Royal Tombs, cut through by a Roman road. |
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| Great efforts are made to cater for western guests, but the devil is in the detail.... |
Early Islamic fresco of a lute-playing bear; under later rulers, this kind of frivolity in art was forbidden. |
Inside the Mameluke fort at Aqaba, scene of Lawrence's epic victory over the Turks in the Arab Revolt. |
Map of Jordan |
