| Leadership and agility coupled with our innovative design and engineering capabilities give Petra the competitive edge it needs to bring to the market high quality HVAC equipment, which offers customers dexterous solutions in energy efficiency, ultra-low noise, and high standards of air quality and custom-made technologies that set new standards in the HVAC industry | Criterion iii : The serried rows of numerous rock-cut tombs reflecting architectural influences from the Assyrians through to monumental Hellenistic; the sacrificial and other religious high places including on Jebels Madbah, M'eisrah, Khubtha, Habis and Al Madras; the remains of the extensive water engineering system, city walls and freestanding temples; garden terraces; funerary stelae and inscriptions together with the outlying caravan staging posts on the approaches from the north Barid or Little Petra and south Sabra also containing tombs, temples, water cisterns and reservoirs are an outstanding testament to the now lost Nabataean civilization of the fourth century BC to the first century AD |
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| Byzantine mosaic in the Byzantine Church of Petra Evidence suggests that settlements had begun in and around Petra in the eighteenth dynasty of Egypt 1550-1292 BCE | Christianity found its way to Petra in the 4th century CE, nearly 500 years after the establishment of Petra as a trade center |
Criterion iv : The architectural ensemble comprising the so-called "royal tombs" in Petra including the Khasneh, the Urn Tomb, the Palace Tomb and the Corinthian Tomb , and the Deir "monastery" demonstrate an outstanding fusion of Hellenistic architecture with Eastern tradition, marking a significant meeting of East and West at the turn of the first millennium of our era.
20| The area is visited by flash floods and archaeological evidence demonstrates the Nabataeans controlled these floods by the use of dams, cisterns and water conduits | Petra is half-built, half-carved into the rock, and is surrounded by mountains riddled with passages and gorges |
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| Source: Outstanding Universal Value Brief synthesis Situated between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea and inhabited since prehistoric times, the rock-cut capital city of the Nabateans, became during Hellenistic and Roman times a major caravan centre for the incense of Arabia, the silks of China and the spices of India, a crossroads between Arabia, Egypt and Syria-Phoenicia | Stations 19 through 26 of the stations list of Exodus are places associated with Petra |
Petra Inhabited since prehistoric times, this Nabataean caravan-city, situated between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea, was an important crossroads between Arabia, Egypt and Syria-Phoenicia.
7| Petra is half-built, half-carved into the rock, and is surrounded by mountains riddled with passages and gorges | One of the monuments listed on the World Heritage List since one thousand nine hundred and eighty-five was discovered by the Swiss orientalist Johann Ludwig Berckhart in 1882 |
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| Integrity All the main freestanding and rock-cut monuments and extensive archaeological remains within the arid landscape of red sandstone cliffs and gorges lie within the boundaries of the property that coincide with the boundaries of the Petra National Park | The impressive eastern entrance leads steeply down through a dark, narrow gorge in places only 3—4 m 9 |
A new sewerage treatment plant has been provided within the property to the north with the recycled water being used for an adjacent drip irrigation farming project.
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