@perkdog said:
I lost track of this thread but love it. For you guys that want to see a scary but cool movie Check out “As Above So Below”
It’s still available on Netflix so Mrs. Dueces and I sat down and watched it last night. Something looked familiar to me and I realized I had seen it when it first came out. Good movie. Different and I like that. Side note the male lead was also in Cloverfield although only for a brief period.
You are correct joe. Btw Cloverfield was a great movie as well!
Anyone recognize this place? You should, it was featured in the movie "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" at the end of the movie when they find the Holy Grail, this is where the Holy Grail was located. In real life, this was an ancient city called the lost city of Petra, and it is located in Jordan.
Petra
The "Lost City" still has secrets to reveal: Thousands of years ago, the now-abandoned city of Petra was thriving.
Camels in the doorway of the Treasury at Petra, Jordan, shows the enormity of the ancient building's entrance. Carved into the sandstone hill by the Nabataeans in the second century A.D., this towering structure likely began as a temple.
Carved directly into vibrant red, white, pink, and sandstone cliff faces, the prehistoric Jordanian city of Petra was "lost" to the Western world for hundreds of years.
Located amid rugged desert canyons and mountains in what is now the southwestern corner of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Petra was once a thriving trading center and the capital of the Nabataean empire between 400 B.C. and A.D. 106.
The city sat empty and in near ruin for centuries. Only in the early 1800s did a European traveler disguise himself in Bedouin costume and infiltrate the mysterious locale.
In 1985, the Petra Archaeological Park was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site, and in 2007 it was named one of the new seven wonders of the world.
Fact and Fiction
Several scenes from the Hollywood blockbuster Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade were filmed in Petra. The movie's fictional Canyon of the Crescent Moon was modeled on the eastern entrance to Petra, a 250-foot-high (76-meter-high) sandstone slot canyon known as the Siq that leads directly to Al Khazneh (the Treasury)—perhaps the most stunning.
The inside is very mysterious, if you walk up the steps and look in, there's an empty chamber, it is believed to have been a tomb for a king. There are three openings that were probably used to store the kings possessions.
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These statues have been linked to alien theories.
The backs of the statues.
These are the ruins of the villages where the inhabitants of Easter island lived during their time.
You are correct joe. Btw Cloverfield was a great movie as well!
Anyone recognize this place? You should, it was featured in the movie "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" at the end of the movie when they find the Holy Grail, this is where the Holy Grail was located. In real life, this was an ancient city called the lost city of Petra, and it is located in Jordan.
Petra
The "Lost City" still has secrets to reveal: Thousands of years ago, the now-abandoned city of Petra was thriving.
Camels in the doorway of the Treasury at Petra, Jordan, shows the enormity of the ancient building's entrance. Carved into the sandstone hill by the Nabataeans in the second century A.D., this towering structure likely began as a temple.
Carved directly into vibrant red, white, pink, and sandstone cliff faces, the prehistoric Jordanian city of Petra was "lost" to the Western world for hundreds of years.
Located amid rugged desert canyons and mountains in what is now the southwestern corner of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Petra was once a thriving trading center and the capital of the Nabataean empire between 400 B.C. and A.D. 106.
The city sat empty and in near ruin for centuries. Only in the early 1800s did a European traveler disguise himself in Bedouin costume and infiltrate the mysterious locale.
In 1985, the Petra Archaeological Park was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site, and in 2007 it was named one of the new seven wonders of the world.
Fact and Fiction
Several scenes from the Hollywood blockbuster Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade were filmed in Petra. The movie's fictional Canyon of the Crescent Moon was modeled on the eastern entrance to Petra, a 250-foot-high (76-meter-high) sandstone slot canyon known as the Siq that leads directly to Al Khazneh (the Treasury)—perhaps the most stunning.
As featured in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
It's unbelievable how the ancient people carved this place out of the Sandstone hill.
Inside is even more impressive
"I spent 50% of my money on alcohol, women, and gambling. The other half I wasted.
Those two colorful statues of the camels are very impressive.
They almost appear lifelike.
The inside is very mysterious, if you walk up the steps and look in, there's an empty chamber, it is believed to have been a tomb for a king. There are three openings that were probably used to store the kings possessions.
This is the inside of the Petra temple, an empty chamber believed to have possibly been a tomb for a king.
Around back on the other side of the cliff is another story, welcome to the lost city of Petra.
The lost city is stunning.
Check out this theater where they would put on plays.
Another ancient theater.