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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 original excavation missed, to have the experience of actually doing archaeology for a day. i've got some skills, man. have you got a digger here, orsomething? yeah, we're ready to go. ready? woo! this is an interesting route to get down here. so, tell me what you're doing. now we sift most of this sand... ahmed and iman both grew up in petra, and have become experts at sorting through the material here. so, you're basically sieving out all the dust and looking for the valuable pieces.
at the end of the siq is the most famous part of petra, the treasury. an elaborate temple carved from the sandstone. just take a look around, you can see how popular this place is. it's the most visited in all ofjordan — but having all of these people here can bring problems. the delicate rocks are easily damaged by tourists touching the monuments or walking off the designated trails, especially in places where 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.
to have the experience of actually doing archaeology for a day. i've got some skills, man. have you got a digger here, orsomething? yeah, we're ready to go. ready? woo! this is an interesting route to get down here. so, tell me what you're doing. now we sift most of this sand... ahmed and iman both grew up in petra, and have become experts at sorting through the material here. so, you're basically sieving out all the dust and looking for the valuable pieces. yes. can i have a go? i was enjoying tasting the dust, but now... voice—over: iman shows me the sort of thing they're looking for. like, normal stones, we don't need them. j we don't need to keep them. yeah, that doesn't look very valuable, that one. no. so, this is part of a jar. and it's nabataean. so, that'd be the original people who lived here, the nabataea ns? yes. so, that'd be very, very old? yeah.
and from tourists like me. this split in the rocks is called the sink and was the only entrance in and out of the city and it would have been heavily guarded to stop anyone sneaking in and taking over. it is just breathtaking. at the end of the seekh is the most famous part of petra, the treasury. an elaborate temple carved from the sandstone. just take a look around and you can see how popular this place is. it is the most visited in all ofjordan. but having all of these people can bring problems. the delicate rocks are easily damaged by tourists touching the monuments or walking off the designated trails, especially in places where excavations are under way.
but now, there is a project aiming at getting tourists themselves involved with conservation of the monuments, to help protect one of the most threatened sites in the whole of petra. this is the temple of the wind lions, a religious complex built in around 27 ad. i like your office. i like what you have done with it. a beautiful place. glen is in charge of the site and started by telling unit of the problems when the temple was first excavated. they recovered this place but did not do a wonderfuljob of preserving it forfuture generations. when you excavate a monument
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 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
this is an interesting route to get down here! so tell me what you're doing. these two both grew up in petra and have become experts at sorting through the material here. so you're basically sieving all of the dust and looking for things. can i have a go? i was enjoying tasting the dust but now... he shows me the sort of thing that they are looking for. we don't need to keep these normal stones. doesn't look very valuable. this is a part of the original people. so that would be very, very old? 2,000 years old! let's see if i can find any treasures. 0k, stand back. let the master get to work! is that cool? let's look.
really seen to love the 2cv. as long as that remains the case the car they called the tin snail will keep ploughing its own furrow in slow lanes everywhere. krista there at the wheel of an absolute classic right here in paris back in 2018. right, let's cross over to a completely different part of the world now as we transport you to the brisket northern coastlines of europe to the dust and sand of southern jordan. petra is one of the world's most famous archaeological sites, carved out of the desert 2000 years ago, it was built by a local tribe called the nabatea ns. in 2016, i went to see efforts to protect this ancient site from the elements
driving in paris is not easy. driving for the first time in a 2cv car in paris is really, really brave for you. well, now you're making me nervous! there are no airbags, the windows aren't electric and, as for ac — let's just say it's pretty rudimentary. but for some reason, the french really seem to love the 2cv. as long as that remains the case, the car they called the "tin snail" will keep ploughing its own furrow on slow lanes everywhere. right, it's time for us to cross over to a completely different part of the world now, as we transport you from the brisk northern coastlines of europe to the dust and the sand of southern jordan. petra is one of the world's most famous archaeological sites. carved out of the desert 2,000 years ago, it was built by a local tribe
called the nabataeans. well, in 2016, i went to see efforts to protect this ancient site from the elements, and from tourists like me. this split in the rocks is called the siq, and it was the only entrance, or way in and out of the city. and it would've been heavily guarded to stop anyone from sneaking in and trying to take over. it's just breathtaking. at the end of the siq is the most famous part of petra, the treasury. an elaborate temple carved from the sandstone. just take a look around, you can see how popular this place is. it's the most visited in all ofjordan — but having all of these people