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An example of the mosaics from the floor of a Byzantine church built over the ruins of Nabatean foundations, which were rediscovered in 1990. (photo by Arnie Weissmann)

A mosaic from the floor of a Byzantine church built over the ruins of Nabatean foundations. (photo by Arnie Weissmann)

Another view of the Urn Tomb. (photo by Arnie Weissmann)

Why walk when you can ride? A camel driver tries to persuade a tourist to hop aboard. The Royal Tombs are in the background. (photo by Arnie Weissmann)

Bedouins taking a break from offering donkey and camel rides to tourists at Petra. (photo by Arnie Weissmann)

The Urn Tomb rises above simpler cave tombs in Petra. (photo by Arnie Weissmann)

A lone visitor walks down the Street of Facades in Petra. (photo by Arnie Weissmann)

The Treasury at Petra is actually a tomb; beyond the grand facade is just one room with three antechambers. (photo by Arnie Weissmann)

Tourists seemed as interested in camels as they were in the ruins in front of the Treasury at Petra. (photo by Arnie Weissmann)

The eroded remains of a bas-relief sculpture of a man leading a camel is carved into the walls of the canyon leading to the Treasury in Petra. (photo by Arnie Weissmann)

The first glimpse of the Treasury at the end of the half-mile canyon pathway leading to Petra's main site. (photo by Arnie Weissmann)

Actors dressed as a Nebateans, the founders of Petra, were scattered throughout the site. (photo by Arnie Weissmann)

The path to Petra winds through a narrow canyon. (photo by Arnie Weissmann)

Outside the path to Petra, a souvenir seller tries to make the most of the fact that Petra was the setting for a scene in the third Indiana Jones movie, "The Last Crusade." (photo by Arnie Weissmann)

The Tomb of the Obelisks along the path leading to the main site of Petra. (photo by Arnie Weissmann)

The crusader castle of Karak. (photo by Arnie Weissmann)

The Karak crusader castle's subterranean passageways can be explored by visitors. (photo by Arnie Weissmann)

A church atop Mount Nebo, where Moses is said to have stood and viewed the Holy Land. (photo by Arnie Weissmann)

An Orthodox church, backlit by the sun breaking through clouds at the site of Bethany Beyond the Jordan. (photo by Arnie Weissmann)

The landscape beyond Bethany Beyond the Jordan. (photo by Arnie Weissmann)

A dramatic sky over Bethany Beyond the Jordan, near where Jesus is said to have been baptized. (photo by Arnie Weissmann)

Michael would have no trouble rowing the boat ashore on the Jordan River near Bethany Beyond the Jordan, where it's little more than a stream. (photo by Arnie Weissmann)

A man leading his camel on the road between the Dead Sea and Bethany Beyond the Jordan. (photo by Arnie Weissmann)