The Ancient City of Petra At Night | Buried Secrets with Albert Lin | National Geographic UK

Never seen anything, anything in my life like this. This is Petra, an ancient city carved into solid rock in the middle of the desert. Somebody, somebody thousands of years ago just dreamed this up in their head and then chipped away at the stone until it emerged. Look at these towering columns here and the perfect lines. I've seen pictures of since I was a kid, I've seen in books, movies, staring at the steps of the great treasury of Petra. It's magical by night, but by day it's something else. The scale of the place takes your breath away. Petra's buildings are a show of wealth and while they're built around the time of Christ, they're the pinnacle of a success that started thousands of years earlier at around the same time that Sodom and Gomorrah may have existed.