Archaeologists led by Dr. Pearce Creasman, executive director of the American Center of Research, have unearthed a secret tomb in the ancient and mysterious city of Petra, Jordan.
Petra’s star attraction is the Treasury (aka al-Khaznah), voted one of the New Seven Wonders of the World in 2007 – an iconic and elaborate mausoleum carved into pink sandstone cliffs and thought to date back at least 2,000 years.
It has featured in numerous movies including “Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger” (1977) and perhaps more pertinently, “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” (1989).
Now, one of the most popular tourist attractions in the region features in a new television documentary about the find.In the show, archaeologists discover and excavate a new tomb immediately in front of the Treasury – next to the site of a burial crypt found by Jordan’s Department of Antiquities in 2003.
To their surprise, the new tomb was filled with 12 complete skeletons and grave goods made from bronze, iron and ceramic – without any signs of disturbance and theft that most tombs in the area suffer from.Their findings can be viewed in full in the latest episode of the Discovery Channel’s “Expedition Unknown” (season 14, episode 1).