ocr: conjectural and need to be verified by excavation. Within these walls, natural and man- made, lie the ruins of Petra, ruins SO utter and complete that for the most part nothing remains but piles of sandy debris hiding a few disconnected lines of foundation. Only four public monuments survive in any degree: a theater, a colonnaded street, a monumental gate and a temple. They are all of Roman date, although they are not any the less interesting for that. What catches the eye are the facades of tombs carved out of the rocky cliffs surrounding the site. So ubiquitous and imposing are these that th ...
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