How many of these fun facts about Petra do you already know? Petra is an important part of Jordan’s cultural heritage, and features on most travel bucket lists – with good reason! With intricately ...

Ad Deir, or the Monastery, is one of Petra's many facades carved out of sandstone in Wadi Musa, Jordan. As visitors enter Petra from the winding gorge known as the Siq, they first behold the ...

You wonâ t believe the food history facts coming your wayâ trust me, theyâ re as wild as they sound. From jaw-dropping culinary twists to unbelievable historical quirks, they’re ...

For hundreds of years, the 2,300-year-old city of Petra, Jordan was largely abandoned and uninhabited. Today, welcoming around a million visitors per year, it’s one of the most popular tourist ...

Twenty years ago, Petra Nemcova was waking up the morning after Christmas and preparing to leave her vacation in Thailand when disaster struck. In 2004, Nemcova was 25 years old and vacationing ...

Two decades after a devastating tsunami swept across Southeast Asia, Petra Nemcova is recalling what, and who, helped her survive the storm. “It’s always difficult to go back in that moment wh ...

A respected figure in the revolutionary unit thanks to his fearlessness and bridge-building skills, Pedro hid a small detail: he was actually a woman named Petra Herrera and, willing to do anything to ...

Now, 20 years after one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern history, Petra sat down with Sawyer again to reflect on the horrors of that day, and the kindness of strangers that got her out ...

ABC News’ Diane Sawyer interviewed Nemcova in the months after the tragedy. Now, 20 years after one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern history, Petra sat down with Sawyer again to reflect on ...