[Cet article a initialement été publié le 15 octobre 2024]
This is a glaring example that reality can sometimes be as incredible as fiction.
Legends and finds
In the old city of Petra, Jordan, archaeologists led by Dr Pearce Paul Creasman, executive director of the American Research Center, would recently discovered 12 human skeletons accompanied by other 2,000 -year -old archaeological vestiges.
This discovery was made under a renowned building, Khaznah or “Le Trésor”. According to a tourist site, it is a tomb, which goes back up “At the reign of the Nabatean king Aretas IV (9 BC-40 AD) ”. According to legend, a pharaoh hid a treasure in the urn located at its top. It was visibly underground that he was better to look.
Intact burials
What makes this discovery exceptional is that many tombs discovered in Petra are empty. However, these burials are intact. They therefore give a necessary overview of the life of the ancient Arab nomads who prospered in the city between the 4th and the 1st century BC
Already in 2003, two first graves had been discovered on the left side of the monument, and it has been several years since archaeologists suspected the presence of other underground funeral chambers. A theory now confirmed, thanks to “A remote sensing technique that uses radar pulses to detect underground objects ”as CNN reports.
The most important deposit of human remains in Petra
According to researchers, this discovery is the most important deposit of human remains discovered in Petra. According to CNN, it could be exposed in one of the new episodes of American reality TV Unknown Expedition broadcast by Discovery Channel who plays with the codes of the films Indiana Jones By staging the archaeologist Josh Gates.
“” “It is an extremely rare discovery. For two centuries that Petra has been studied by archaeologists, nothing like this has not been discovered before. Even in front of one of the most famous buildings in the world … There are still huge discoveries to make ”, said Josh Gates, host of the show “Expedition Unknown”, relays CNN.
The article recalls that Discovery Channel belongs to the parent company of CNN, Warner Bros. Discovery.
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