Welcome to the International North-Eastern Petra Project

A Project Study by Stephan G. Schmid, Zbigniew T. Fiema and Bernhard Kolb, in collaboration between the Association for the Understanding of Ancient Cultures (AUAC) and the Department of Antiquities of Jordan. Currently sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Cluster of Excellence 264 „Topoi – The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations“.

The city-centre of Petra as seen from Umm al-Biyara (photo: A. Barmasse)
The city-centre of Petra as seen from Umm al-Biyara (photo: A. Barmasse)