Throughout Jordan and throughout the Middle East may no monumental as impressive as Petra. It was registered in 1985 in the catalog of World Heritage of Unesco. Petra was the capital of the Nabataeans, an Arab nomad century BC It is an amazing city carved into a cliff wall. Forgotten for a thousand years, it was not rediscovered until 1812. Until 1985 it was the refuge Bedouin families have been resettled in the village of Um Seyhun, next to the ruins. Although Petra receives up to three thousand visitors daily, the dispersal of the ruins makes the visitor never feels overwhelmed by tourist groups.