Kazneh House - Petra - Jordan
N 30° 19.340 E 035° 27.113
36R E 735746 N 3357050
Stamp representing the most elaborate rock-cut tombs in Petra, a city of the Nabatean Kingdom.
Waymark Code: WM19429
Location: Jordan
Date Posted: 11/22/2023
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"Issued on Augustus 11th, 1995, two stamps were realized by Offset printing in the archeology theme related to the rose city of Petra. They represent Al-Khazneh, the most elaborate tomb in Petra, carved into a sandstone rock wall, becoming a major tourist attraction in both Jordan and the region.
Al-Khazneh means "The Treasury" in Arabic, a name derived from legends regarding the decorative stone urn high on the second level, which in reality is solid sandstone. It became called "Al-Khazneh" in the early 19th century by the area's Bedouins as they had believed it contained treasures.
One legend is that the Egyptian Pharaoh and some of his armies escaped the closing of the Red Sea, created the Khazneh by magic as a safe place for his treasury, and continued in his pursuit of Moses. This led to the name Khazneh el-Far'oun, "Treasury of the Pharaoh".
In 1812, the city of Petra and Al-Khazneh was rediscovered by Swiss explorer Burckhardt. As Western Europe continued to explore the Middle East, tourism became more common, and by the 1920s, a small hotel had opened near Petra. While Petra was not as popular as larger, more central cities like Cairo, tourism started changing the economy and social structure of the nearby Bedouin people.
The Treasury has appeared in many Hollywood films, gaining particular fame after being featured in climactic scenes in the 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, in which its façade is represented as the entrance to the final resting place of the Holy Grail. The interior scenes of the temple were filmed at Elstree Studios in England."
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