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You may recognize this facade from the movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. They filmed the ending of the movie here but the chambers within are a lot less interesting than those in the movie. This is called the Khazneh, or treasury, and it was built around the 1st century BCE. When I got here, knowing little of the site before hand, I thought this was all there was to see. I was quite wrong, as I found out when I followed the narrow ravine to the right into an entire valley filled with carved enclosures and caves. This was once home to the Nabateans, a civilization that existed at roughly the same time as the Romans.