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Of compressed earth which will take years to sort through. at the moment, there's a team of local people tackling this mammoth task. we have specialists who come and actually work and train and work with the local community, and not have them just be regular day labourers that sort of help with manual labour but actually training them in the tangible vocational skills to help them preserve the site in the coming years. and the idea is that the locals then train tourists to help out, too. we're going to have them working on the soil dumps, looking for pottery and coins and other things the orig...

In the whole of petra. this is the temple of winged lions, a religious complex built in around 27 ad. i'm liking your office, glenn. i like what you've done with it. no, this is a beautiful place. this is... glenn is in charge of the site and tells me how the problems here started in the 1970s, when the temple was first excavated. they uncovered this cool monument, but didn't do a wonderfuljob of doing the things necessary to preserve it for future generations. whenever you excavate a monument, you have to pull a lot of the earth out of the ground in order to reveal it. and so this earlier pro...

And so, this earlier project dumped a lot of that earth. and so, as you'll see, we're trying to re—excavate those earlier archaeological dumps. the dumps are huge mounds of compressed earth which will take years to sort through. at the moment, there's a team of local people tackling this mammoth task. we have specialists who come and actually work and train and work with the local community, and not have them just be regular day labourers that sort of help with manual labour, but actually training them in the tangible vocational skills to help them preserve the site in the coming years. and ...

Excavations are under way. but now, there's a project aimed at getting tourists themselves involved with the conservation of the monuments, to help protect one of the most threatened sites in the whole of petra. this is the temple of winged lions, a religious complex built in around 27 ad. i'm liking your office, glenn. i like what you've done with it. no, this is a beautiful place. this is... voice—over: glenn is in charge of the site, and tells me how the problems here started in the 1970s, when the temple was first excavated. they uncovered this cool monument, but didn't do a wonderfuljob...

This is the temple of winged lions, a religious complex built in around 27 ad. i'm liking your office, glenn. i like what you've done with it. no, this is a beautiful place. this is... voice—over: glenn is in charge of the site, and tells me how the problems here started in the 1970s, when the temple was first excavated. they uncovered this cool monument, but didn't do a wonderfuljob of doing the things necessary to preserve it for future generations. whenever you excavate a monument, you have to pull a lot of the earth out of the ground in order to reveal it. and so, this earlier project du...