Petra Tour: Theater
Monumental theater with semicircular auditorium for eight thousand spectators, hewn directly from the rock in the early first century AD.
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After the Roman annexation in 106 AD, the theater was enlarged slicing trough some older tombs, remains of which can be seen on the smoothed rock face in the back.
© Photos: Haupt & Binder
Monumental theater with semicircular auditorium for eight thousand spectators, hewn directly from the rock in the early first century AD.
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