The human remains of 12 individuals have been discovered in a chamber in the well-known Petra in Jordan.
Petra, one of the new seven wonders of the world and a UNESCO World Heritage site, was the capital of the Nabatean Kingdom, which lasted from roughly 400 B.C. until the Romans absorbed the Kingdom as a province in the beginning of the second century A.D.
“Complete burial sites are not a common thing in Petra,” says Richard Bates, a geophysicist at St. Andrews University in Scotland who has worked on the recent discoveries.
Researchers are still analyzing the remains to learn more about them, but they have discovered a few things about the people who were buried in the chamber known as the treasury.
