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<p>[QUOTE="sand, post: 7783376, member: 118540"]I don't think the Petra carvings were attacked by extremists. I think maybe Jordan was spared a lot of the extremist ISIS violence, which plagued Syria and Iraq, a few years ago, but I'm not sure about that. I looked through the Wikipedia article, and I didn't see anything, about extremists.</p><p>However, it seems that, the Petra site is in danger of being worn away, by the hands and feet of tourists.</p><p>In a USA Today article, it says "it took only a decade of tourists leaning against and touching the Al Khazneh (The Treasury) to wear down its surface by 1.5 inches."</p><p><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/destinations/2013/05/16/disappearing-wonders-10-world-heritage-sites-in-danger/2163883/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/destinations/2013/05/16/disappearing-wonders-10-world-heritage-sites-in-danger/2163883/" rel="nofollow">https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/destinations/2013/05/16/disappearing-wonders-10-world-heritage-sites-in-danger/2163883/</a></p><p>I guess it's a common problem, for ancient tourist attractions.</p><p>But especially with Petra, because "the red sandstone is soft and easily eroded".</p><p>"The dramatic rise in visitors over recent decades—from 65,000 in 1986 to nearly 1 million in 2010—is taking its toll."</p><p>Wikipedia says, that there were "1.1 million tourists in 2019".</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="sand, post: 7783376, member: 118540"]I don't think the Petra carvings were attacked by extremists. I think maybe Jordan was spared a lot of the extremist ISIS violence, which plagued Syria and Iraq, a few years ago, but I'm not sure about that. I looked through the Wikipedia article, and I didn't see anything, about extremists. However, it seems that, the Petra site is in danger of being worn away, by the hands and feet of tourists. In a USA Today article, it says "it took only a decade of tourists leaning against and touching the Al Khazneh (The Treasury) to wear down its surface by 1.5 inches." [URL]https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/destinations/2013/05/16/disappearing-wonders-10-world-heritage-sites-in-danger/2163883/[/URL] I guess it's a common problem, for ancient tourist attractions. But especially with Petra, because "the red sandstone is soft and easily eroded". "The dramatic rise in visitors over recent decades—from 65,000 in 1986 to nearly 1 million in 2010—is taking its toll." Wikipedia says, that there were "1.1 million tourists in 2019". [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra[/URL][/QUOTE]
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