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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,067 --> 00:00:04,500 Narrator: IT'S ONE OF THE GREAT WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD, 2 00:00:04,533 --> 00:00:08,500 BUT WHO BUILT THE MAGNIFICENT CITY OF PETRA, AND WHY? 3 00:00:08,533 --> 00:00:10,700 WHY TREASURE REMAINS BURIED HERE, 4 00:00:10,733 --> 00:00:17,033 AND WHAT DARK SECRETS REMAIN HIDDEN IN THIS MYSTERIOUS PLACE? 5 00:00:17,067 --> 00:00:19,267 Butler: THERE WERE ANCIENT TREASURES, 6 00:00:19,300 --> 00:00:20,900 WHICH WERE ANCIENT EVEN THEN, 7 00:00:20,933 --> 00:00:24,167 BEING FOUND THAT WERE FINDING THEIR WAY THROUGH PETRA. 8 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:25,509 Theakston: YOU WOULD GO TO JAIL IF THEY CAME 9 00:00:25,533 --> 00:00:26,676 AND THEY FOUND THIS IN YOUR HOUSE? 10 00:00:26,700 --> 00:00:28,400 YEAH, THIS ONE. RIGHT, OKAY. 11 00:00:28,433 --> 00:00:29,633 OKAY. 12 00:00:29,667 --> 00:00:30,867 THEY HAD A LOT OF RESOURCES. 13 00:00:30,900 --> 00:00:33,033 THEY HAD A LOT OF MONEY TO SPEND, 14 00:00:33,067 --> 00:00:34,633 AND SO IT WOULDN'T BE THAT SURPRISING 15 00:00:34,667 --> 00:00:37,800 IF SOME OF THAT WAS STILL AROUND SOMEWHERE IN SOME FORM. 16 00:00:37,833 --> 00:00:39,700 Theakston: I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT MY NOSE 17 00:00:39,733 --> 00:00:43,600 IS THIS CLOSE TO SOMETHING THAT'S 8,000 YEARS OLD. 18 00:00:43,633 --> 00:00:45,100 Picknett: OVER THE CENTURIES, 19 00:00:45,133 --> 00:00:49,533 A LOT HAS SURFACED BELONGING TO THE ANCIENT CULTURE THERE, 20 00:00:49,567 --> 00:00:51,467 AND THE ARABS CERTAINLY BELIEVED 21 00:00:51,500 --> 00:00:53,900 THAT THERE WERE ASTONISHING TREASURES 22 00:00:53,933 --> 00:00:55,833 HIDDEN IN THE BUILDINGS, IN THE ROCK FACE, 23 00:00:55,867 --> 00:00:57,767 THE CARVED ROCK FACE THERE. 24 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:00,867 CAN I HAVE THE PLOW? CAN I TOUCH IT? 25 00:01:00,900 --> 00:01:02,633 BE CAREFUL. 26 00:01:02,667 --> 00:01:05,167 Fanthorpe: I THINK IT'S VERY PROBABLE 27 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:09,700 THAT OF ALL THE VALUABLE GOODS THAT CAME THROUGH, 28 00:01:09,733 --> 00:01:11,300 A GREAT MANY TREASURES 29 00:01:11,333 --> 00:01:15,733 WERE LEFT THERE AND ARE BURIED THERE TO THIS DAY. 30 00:01:16,367 --> 00:01:19,333 Captions by VITAC... www.vitac.com 31 00:01:19,367 --> 00:01:22,400 CAPTIONS PAID FOR BY DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS 32 00:01:35,367 --> 00:01:38,200 Narrator: PETRA IS ONE OF THE MOST MAGICAL PLACES 33 00:01:38,233 --> 00:01:39,367 IN THE ARAB WORLD, 34 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:43,367 FAMOUS FOR ITS ROSE-CUT ROCKS, ITS EERIE TOMBS, 35 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:45,500 AND ITS COLORFUL HISTORY. 36 00:01:45,533 --> 00:01:47,400 AND SINCE 2007, 37 00:01:47,433 --> 00:01:50,567 IT'S BEEN DESIGNATED A WORLD HERITAGE SITE. 38 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:53,300 HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF TOURISTS NOW VISIT PETRA 39 00:01:53,333 --> 00:01:54,433 EVERY YEAR. 40 00:01:54,467 --> 00:01:57,433 BUT IS THERE A DARKER, MORE SECRET SIDE 41 00:01:57,467 --> 00:01:59,066 TO THIS ANCIENT CITY, 42 00:01:59,067 --> 00:02:02,467 INVOLVING HIDDEN TREASURES AND RELIC SMUGGLING? 43 00:02:02,500 --> 00:02:05,533 JOURNALIST JAMIE THEAKSTON IS ON A MISSION TO FIND OUT. 44 00:02:05,567 --> 00:02:09,800 [ SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE ] 45 00:02:09,833 --> 00:02:13,333 THE CITY OF PETRA REMAINED UNKNOWN TO THE WESTERN WORLD 46 00:02:13,367 --> 00:02:16,500 UNTIL 1812, WHEN IT WAS DISCOVERED 47 00:02:16,533 --> 00:02:19,567 BY THE SWISS EXPLORER JOHANN LUDWIG BURCKHARDT, 48 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:20,843 WHO HAD TRAVELED THROUGH THE REGION 49 00:02:20,867 --> 00:02:23,600 DISGUISED AS A BEDOUIN. 50 00:02:23,633 --> 00:02:27,600 PETRA LIES IN A VAST DESERT REGION IN THE SOUTH OF JORDAN, 51 00:02:27,633 --> 00:02:29,333 A COUNTRY IN THE VERY CENTER 52 00:02:29,367 --> 00:02:31,733 OF TODAY'S MIDDLE EASTERN CONFLICTS, 53 00:02:31,767 --> 00:02:35,100 SURROUNDED BY SYRIA, IRAQ, AND ISRAEL 54 00:02:35,133 --> 00:02:39,900 AND HOME TO OVER TWO MILLION PALESTINIAN REFUGEES. 55 00:02:39,933 --> 00:02:42,267 DESPITE THE POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS TENSIONS 56 00:02:42,300 --> 00:02:44,200 THAT SWIRL AROUND IT TODAY, 57 00:02:44,233 --> 00:02:47,867 IT'S ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS CULTURAL SITES ON THE PLANET 58 00:02:47,900 --> 00:02:51,500 AND VISITED BY MILLIONS OF TOURISTS EVERY YEAR. 59 00:02:51,533 --> 00:02:55,500 PETRA IS ONE OF THE MOST ANCIENT CITIES 60 00:02:55,533 --> 00:03:00,767 AND AT THE SAME TIME, ONE OF THE MOST UNUSUAL CITIES. 61 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:04,500 IT'S, AS THE FAMOUS POETIC DESCRIPTION GOES, 62 00:03:04,533 --> 00:03:08,333 "A ROSE RED CITY HALF AS OLD AS TIME." 63 00:03:10,433 --> 00:03:13,767 Butler: PETRA SEEMS TO HAVE EVERYTHING, 64 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,567 WHICH IS UTTERLY FASCINATING TO PEOPLE. 65 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:20,733 IT HAS MAGNIFICENT ARCHITECTURE. 66 00:03:20,767 --> 00:03:26,833 IT'S CARVED OUT OF SOLID ROCK AND YET IT HAS GREEK PILLARS 67 00:03:26,867 --> 00:03:31,066 AND ALL SORTS OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF BYZANTINE ARCHITECTURE. 68 00:03:31,067 --> 00:03:33,767 AND YET, IT'S ABSOLUTELY IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE. 69 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:36,933 IT IS LITERALLY MILES AND MILES OUT IN THE DESERT. 70 00:03:36,967 --> 00:03:40,500 Picknett: IT WAS JUST SOMETHING. 71 00:03:40,533 --> 00:03:43,433 IT WAS LIKE, YOU KNOW, A MIRAGE ALMOST. 72 00:03:43,467 --> 00:03:45,500 YOU ARRIVED THERE, AND YOU AND YOUR ANIMALS 73 00:03:45,533 --> 00:03:47,100 DRANK WATER AND HUNG OUT. 74 00:03:47,133 --> 00:03:49,700 AND THERE WERE MERCHANTS FROM ALL OVER THE AREA. 75 00:03:49,733 --> 00:03:51,100 SO, BASICALLY, 76 00:03:51,133 --> 00:03:53,143 YOU COULD DO YOURSELF A BIT OF GOOD WITH YOUR BUSINESS, 77 00:03:53,167 --> 00:03:54,600 YOU COULD HAVE FUN, 78 00:03:54,633 --> 00:03:57,700 AND YOU COULD STOCK UP WITH WATER. 79 00:03:57,733 --> 00:04:00,233 [ INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS ] 80 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:06,733 Narrator: THE CITY WE SEE TODAY WAS BUILT AROUND 400 B.C. 81 00:04:06,767 --> 00:04:10,200 BY A NOMADIC ARAB TRIBE CALLED THE NABATAEANS, 82 00:04:10,233 --> 00:04:14,067 WHO WERE KNOWN TO BE EXCELLENT ENGINEERS. 83 00:04:14,100 --> 00:04:16,733 ENCLOSED BY TOWERING ROCKS, 84 00:04:16,767 --> 00:04:20,133 PETRA NOT ONLY POSSESSED THE ADVANTAGES OF A FORTRESS, 85 00:04:20,167 --> 00:04:21,367 BUT ITS POSITION 86 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:23,800 MEANT THAT IT CONTROLLED THE MAIN COMMERCIAL ROUTES 87 00:04:23,833 --> 00:04:26,767 WHICH PASS THROUGH IT TO GAZA IN THE WEST, 88 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:31,067 DAMASCUS IN THE NORTH, AQABA SOUTH ON THE RED SEA, 89 00:04:31,100 --> 00:04:33,667 AND ACROSS TO THE PERSIAN GULF. 90 00:04:36,667 --> 00:04:38,933 BUT IT WAS THE ABILITY OF THE NABATAEANS 91 00:04:38,967 --> 00:04:42,100 TO CONTROL AND SUSTAIN A CONSTANT WATER SUPPLY 92 00:04:42,133 --> 00:04:43,300 OUT IN THE DESERT 93 00:04:43,333 --> 00:04:47,066 THAT LED TO ITS SUCCESS AND GROWTH. 94 00:04:47,067 --> 00:04:48,567 Fanthorpe: THE NABATAEANS, 95 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:51,066 WHO BUILT THE CITY IN THE FIRST PLACE, 96 00:04:51,067 --> 00:04:55,233 WERE AN AMAZING MIXTURE OF WATER ENGINEERS, 97 00:04:55,267 --> 00:04:58,233 AND THEY WERE EXPERTS, REAL EXPERTS, 98 00:04:58,267 --> 00:05:00,867 AND EXPERT TRADERS. 99 00:05:00,900 --> 00:05:04,533 THEY KNEW THE COST AND VALUE OF EVERYTHING, 100 00:05:04,567 --> 00:05:07,100 AND WHEN THE TRADING CARAVANS 101 00:05:07,133 --> 00:05:10,367 CAME THROUGH FROM NORTH, SOUTH, EAST AND WEST, 102 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:12,066 THEY MADE THE MOST OF IT. 103 00:05:12,067 --> 00:05:16,967 THEY WERE, IN FACT, ALMOST AN ANCIENT SHOPPING MALL 104 00:05:17,067 --> 00:05:20,933 LONG BEFORE WE INVENTED THEM IN THE 20th CENTURY. 105 00:05:23,233 --> 00:05:25,667 Butler: WE HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT THIS WAS A PLACE 106 00:05:25,700 --> 00:05:28,367 THAT WAS LITERALLY ON THE SILK ROAD. 107 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:32,167 THERE WAS SILK AND SPICES COMING ALL THE WAY FROM CHINA, 108 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:34,233 COMING RIGHT PAST THE FRONT DOOR. 109 00:05:34,267 --> 00:05:37,167 THERE WAS BITUMEN GOING FROM THE DEAD SEA TO EGYPT 110 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:38,667 IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION, 111 00:05:38,700 --> 00:05:40,900 AND ALL SORTS OF PRECIOUS THINGS 112 00:05:40,933 --> 00:05:44,066 COMING UP FROM THE ARABIAN GULF AND BEYOND. 113 00:05:44,067 --> 00:05:48,467 THERE WAS FRANKINCENSE AND MYRRH. 114 00:05:48,500 --> 00:05:52,700 PETRA WAS A METROPOLIS IN ITSELF 115 00:05:52,733 --> 00:05:56,066 AND MUST HAVE SEEMED AN INCREDIBLE PLACE TO COME UPON 116 00:05:56,067 --> 00:05:59,467 AFTER DAYS AND DAYS OF PLODDING ON THROUGH THE DESERT. 117 00:06:06,933 --> 00:06:10,467 Narrator: PART OF THE MAGIC OF PETRA IS IN THE ARRIVAL. 118 00:06:10,500 --> 00:06:13,200 WHETHER YOU WERE A BEDOUIN TRADER OR A SULTAN 119 00:06:13,233 --> 00:06:17,367 OR A TOURIST, YOU ALL ARRIVE IN EXACTLY THE SAME WAY... 120 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:21,267 VIA A MAGNIFICENT GORGE CALLED THE SIQ. 121 00:06:21,300 --> 00:06:24,667 IT WAS FORMED BY A NATURAL GEOLOGICAL FAULT. 122 00:06:24,700 --> 00:06:27,833 IT'S A MILE LONG, ABOUT 250 FEET DEEP, 123 00:06:27,867 --> 00:06:30,733 AND RECENTLY, ARCHAEOLOGISTS DISCOVERED 124 00:06:30,767 --> 00:06:33,633 CHAMBERS UNDERNEATH THE STONE AND SAND, 125 00:06:33,667 --> 00:06:35,833 WHICH WERE BELIEVED TO HAVE HOUSED SOLDIERS 126 00:06:35,867 --> 00:06:39,567 WHO WOULD RISE UP AND REPEL ANY ATTACKERS. 127 00:06:46,133 --> 00:06:49,066 Fanthorpe: IT HAS THIS NATURAL PROTECTION, 128 00:06:49,067 --> 00:06:54,900 WHICH IS, AT ONE POINT, ONLY THREE METERS WIDE, 129 00:06:54,933 --> 00:06:58,167 AND THAT LEADS INTO THE CITY. 130 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:02,500 THE WALLS TOWER UP TO 300 FEET 131 00:07:02,533 --> 00:07:06,300 SO THAT WITH THAT SORT OF NATURAL DEFENSE, 132 00:07:06,333 --> 00:07:09,967 HALF A DOZEN MEN COULD PROTECT IT AGAINST THE WORLD. 133 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:18,733 Narrator: AT THE END OF THE SIQ IS THIS MAGNIFICENT BUILDING, 134 00:07:18,767 --> 00:07:23,400 THE TREASURY, OR AL KHAZNEH, AS IT'S KNOWN LOCALLY. 135 00:07:23,433 --> 00:07:26,367 IT'S ONE OF THE MOST RECOGNIZABLE HISTORICAL SITES 136 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:28,267 IN THE WORLD. 137 00:07:28,300 --> 00:07:30,833 FAMOUSLY, HARRISON FORD AND SEAN CONNERY 138 00:07:30,867 --> 00:07:34,700 CHARGED UP TO IT ON HORSEBACK, LOOKING FOR THE HOLY GRAIL, 139 00:07:34,733 --> 00:07:37,333 AND THEY WEREN'T THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO CAME TO PETRA 140 00:07:37,367 --> 00:07:40,433 LOOKING FOR GREAT TREASURES. 141 00:07:40,467 --> 00:07:42,900 Fanthorpe: THERE'S ONE MARVELOUS STORY 142 00:07:42,933 --> 00:07:47,367 THAT CONNECTS PETRA WITH THE PHARAOH OF THE EXODUS, 143 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:48,633 WHO WAS ALLEGED 144 00:07:48,667 --> 00:07:52,700 TO HAVE BEEN PURSUING THE RUNAWAY HEBREW SLAVES 145 00:07:52,733 --> 00:07:54,667 ALL THE WAY TO PETRA 146 00:07:54,700 --> 00:07:58,133 AND FINDING THAT HE WASN'T ABLE TO KEEP UP WITH THEM, 147 00:07:58,167 --> 00:08:00,066 BECAUSE HE HAD VERY PRUDENTLY 148 00:08:00,067 --> 00:08:02,800 BROUGHT A LOT OF HIS TREASURE WITH HIM, 149 00:08:02,833 --> 00:08:05,433 AND HIS ARMY TO KEEP IT SAFE. 150 00:08:05,467 --> 00:08:08,400 THAT HE DEPOSITED THE TREASURE THERE, 151 00:08:08,433 --> 00:08:10,667 INTENDING TO COME BACK FOR IT, 152 00:08:10,700 --> 00:08:15,133 AND WENT ON IN PURSUIT OF THE JEWISH SLAVES, 153 00:08:15,167 --> 00:08:19,067 AND HE NEVER CAME BACK TO COLLECT THE TREASURE. 154 00:08:23,100 --> 00:08:25,733 AND, OF COURSE, THERE WAS THE MARVELOUS ACCOUNT 155 00:08:25,767 --> 00:08:30,067 IN THE OTTAWA JOURNAL OF 1927 156 00:08:30,100 --> 00:08:32,933 THAT SAID TREASURES HAD BEEN FOUND 157 00:08:32,967 --> 00:08:36,367 BUT ONLY A VERY FEW HAD BEEN REMOVED. 158 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:40,600 THAT NEWSPAPER ARTICLE FROM ALL THOSE YEARS AGO 159 00:08:40,633 --> 00:08:46,267 SUGGESTED THAT THERE'S A LOT OF BURIED TREASURE UNDER PETRA. 160 00:08:53,700 --> 00:08:56,500 Narrator: DR. SULEIMAN FARAJAT IS A FORMER DIRECTOR 161 00:08:56,533 --> 00:08:58,200 OF THE PETRA SITE, 162 00:08:58,233 --> 00:09:02,800 WHO SHOWED PRESIDENT OBAMA AROUND THE RUINS IN 2013. 163 00:09:02,833 --> 00:09:07,133 TODAY, HE AGREED TO BE JAMIE'S GUIDE TO THIS FASCINATING SITE, 164 00:09:07,167 --> 00:09:09,767 STARTING WITH THE INSIDE OF THE TREASURY... 165 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:12,500 A PLACE THAT FEW TOURISTS EVER SEE. 166 00:09:15,100 --> 00:09:18,167 SO, SULEIMAN, IS THIS AS FAR BACK AS IT GOES? 167 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:20,066 YES, THIS IS THE FARTHEST POINT WE GO. 168 00:09:20,067 --> 00:09:21,167 ALL RIGHT. 169 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:22,400 'CAUSE I'D IMAGINED 170 00:09:22,433 --> 00:09:24,967 THAT IT WAS A HUGE CATHEDRAL BEHIND HERE, 171 00:09:25,067 --> 00:09:26,500 BUT THERE'S NOTHING HERE. 172 00:09:26,533 --> 00:09:28,066 NO, THERE IS NOTHING. 173 00:09:28,067 --> 00:09:30,200 ONLY A BIG CHAMBER, 174 00:09:30,233 --> 00:09:33,233 AND THERE ARE NO DECORATIONS, NO CARVINGS INSIDE. 175 00:09:33,267 --> 00:09:35,567 SO, WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN HERE, THEN? 176 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:40,700 THIS IS ACTUALLY A BIG MAUSOLEUM 177 00:09:40,733 --> 00:09:43,400 FOR ONE OF THE NABATAEAN KINGS. 178 00:09:43,433 --> 00:09:44,600 OH, RIGHT. 179 00:09:44,633 --> 00:09:45,909 SO, IT'S A BIT LIKE A BURIAL CHAMBER? 180 00:09:45,933 --> 00:09:47,233 YES, A BURIAL CHAMBER, 181 00:09:47,267 --> 00:09:48,900 BUT THIS IS NOT THE BURIAL CHAMBER. 182 00:09:48,933 --> 00:09:55,167 THE BURIALS ARE BELOW. 183 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:58,333 Fanthorpe: WHAT WE SEE IN MODERN PETRA 184 00:09:58,367 --> 00:10:00,500 IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT IT WAS LIKE 185 00:10:00,533 --> 00:10:06,433 WHEN IT WAS IN ITS PRIME AND AT ITS PEAK SOME 2,000 YEARS AGO. 186 00:10:06,467 --> 00:10:09,367 WE HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT THE RED SANDSTONE 187 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:11,367 OF WHICH THE CITY IS BUILT 188 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:17,100 IS SUBJECT TO CONSTANT FALLING AND EROSION, 189 00:10:17,133 --> 00:10:23,667 AND THERE ARE UPWARD OF 9 OR 10 FEET OF RUBBLE AND SAND 190 00:10:23,700 --> 00:10:28,467 OVER THE OLD CITY STREETS AND THE OLD CITY CENTER. 191 00:10:28,500 --> 00:10:32,367 SO IF WE COULD GET THAT RUBBLE OUT, 192 00:10:32,400 --> 00:10:35,000 IF WE COULD GET THE SAND SHIFTED, 193 00:10:35,033 --> 00:10:38,833 GET BACK TO THE ORIGINAL PETRA, 194 00:10:38,867 --> 00:10:42,333 HEAVEN ALONE KNOWS WHAT'S BURIED UNDER THOSE STREETS 195 00:10:42,367 --> 00:10:45,333 AND ESPECIALLY UNDER THE MAGNIFICENT BUILDING 196 00:10:45,367 --> 00:10:48,600 KNOWN AS THE TREASURY. 197 00:10:48,633 --> 00:10:51,367 Narrator: WHAT LIES HIDDEN IN THE ANCIENT ROYAL TOMBS 198 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:53,200 BENEATH THE TREASURY? 199 00:10:53,233 --> 00:10:56,700 WHERE DID MOSES FIRST DISCOVER WATER AT PETRA? 200 00:10:56,733 --> 00:10:59,567 AND WHAT TREASURES STILL LIE OUT IN THE DESERT, 201 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:02,767 WAITING TO BE DISCOVERED BY THE LOCAL BEDOUINS? 202 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:05,767 MORE FASCINATING DISCOVERIES COMING UP 203 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:08,500 WHEN "FORBIDDEN HISTORY" RETURNS. 204 00:11:11,567 --> 00:11:13,933 Narrator: JOURNALIST JAMIE THEAKSTON IS IN THE ANCIENT CITY 205 00:11:13,967 --> 00:11:15,667 OF PETRA IN JORDAN, 206 00:11:15,700 --> 00:11:17,500 LOOKING FOR THE LOST TREASURES 207 00:11:17,533 --> 00:11:20,500 THAT ARE SAID TO HAVE BEEN BURIED THERE OVER THE CENTURIES, 208 00:11:20,533 --> 00:11:23,433 NOW DEEP UNDER THE SOIL AND ROCKS. 209 00:11:23,467 --> 00:11:25,933 SO FAR, HE'S BEEN GIVEN EXCLUSIVE ACCESS 210 00:11:25,967 --> 00:11:29,733 TO THE MOST ICONIC BUILDING ON THE WHOLE SITE, THE TREASURY, 211 00:11:29,767 --> 00:11:32,133 BUT IT TURNED OUT TO BE AN EMPTY MAUSOLEUM 212 00:11:32,167 --> 00:11:35,867 WITH NO CLUES TO THE WHEREABOUTS OF THE CITY'S PAST SPLENDORS 213 00:11:35,900 --> 00:11:37,667 AND TREASURES. 214 00:11:37,700 --> 00:11:40,100 AND YET THE BELIEF THAT THIS ANCIENT PLACE 215 00:11:40,133 --> 00:11:42,167 STILL HAS VALUABLE SECRETS 216 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:46,066 AND PRICELESS RELICS TO GIVE UP RUNS DEEP, 217 00:11:46,067 --> 00:11:49,467 NO MORE SO THAN WITH THE LOCAL BEDOUIN TRIBES 218 00:11:49,500 --> 00:11:52,066 WHO STILL HEAD INTO THE DESERT NIGHTS, 219 00:11:52,067 --> 00:11:54,067 LOOKING TO HIT THE JACKPOT. 220 00:11:59,767 --> 00:12:01,533 Theakston: SO, SULEIMAN, THERE'S AN URN 221 00:12:01,567 --> 00:12:02,800 THAT, ACCORDING TO LEGEND, 222 00:12:02,833 --> 00:12:05,066 HAS TREASURE UP THERE, RIGHT? 223 00:12:05,067 --> 00:12:08,933 YES. THERE IS AN URN ABOVE THE FALLS THERE. 224 00:12:08,967 --> 00:12:11,767 ACTUALLY, IT IS SOLID ROCK. 225 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:14,200 THERE IS NOTHING INSIDE IT. 226 00:12:14,233 --> 00:12:19,967 HISTORICALLY, IT WAS THE TRADITIONAL SYMBOL OF THE DEATH. 227 00:12:20,067 --> 00:12:20,967 THAT'S ALL. RIGHT. 228 00:12:21,067 --> 00:12:22,833 BUT THE LOCAL PEOPLE AND THE BEDOUIN, 229 00:12:22,867 --> 00:12:25,500 THEY USED TO SHOOT IT BY THEIR GUNS 230 00:12:25,533 --> 00:12:27,867 TO BREAK IT AND TO GET THE TREASURE INSIDE IT, 231 00:12:27,900 --> 00:12:29,167 BUT THERE WAS NONE. 232 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:31,066 IS THAT WHY THAT'S ALL GOT THE BULLET HOLES ON THE URN? 233 00:12:31,067 --> 00:12:34,700 YES, AND YOU SEE THEY MADE OFF WITH IT. 234 00:12:36,333 --> 00:12:38,333 Picknett: THE ARABS CERTAINLY BELIEVED 235 00:12:38,367 --> 00:12:40,300 THAT THERE WERE ASTONISHING TREASURES 236 00:12:40,333 --> 00:12:41,467 HIDDEN IN THE BUILDING... 237 00:12:41,500 --> 00:12:43,400 IT'S THE CARVED ROCK FACE THERE... 238 00:12:43,433 --> 00:12:47,133 BECAUSE ACTUALLY, THEY TOOK POP SHOTS AT THE BUILDINGS. 239 00:12:47,167 --> 00:12:50,200 YOU CAN STILL SEE THAT THE SIGN OF THEIR POP SHOTS, 240 00:12:50,233 --> 00:12:52,300 TO TRY AND DISLODGE WHAT THEY WERE UTTERLY CONVINCED 241 00:12:52,333 --> 00:12:53,367 WERE TREASURES LODGED, 242 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:56,700 HIDDEN IN THE ACTUAL EDIFICE ITSELF. 243 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:00,900 Prince: IT WOULDN'T BE AT ALL SURPRISING 244 00:13:00,933 --> 00:13:02,567 IF THERE WERE STILL TREASURES DOWN THERE 245 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:06,800 BECAUSE IT WAS AN INCREDIBLY RICH CITY, RICH PLACE. 246 00:13:06,833 --> 00:13:08,967 IT WAS ON SOME OF THE MAJOR TRADE ROUTES. 247 00:13:09,067 --> 00:13:10,967 IT CONTROLLED SOME OF THE MAJOR TRADE ROUTES. 248 00:13:11,067 --> 00:13:14,367 SO A LOT OF MONEY WENT THROUGH THERE. 249 00:13:14,400 --> 00:13:15,667 THEY HAD A LOT OF RESOURCES. 250 00:13:15,700 --> 00:13:17,767 THEY HAD A LOT OF MONEY TO SPEND. 251 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:19,433 IT WOULDN'T BE THAT SURPRISING 252 00:13:19,467 --> 00:13:23,300 IF SOME OF THAT WERE STILL AROUND SOMEWHERE IN SOME FORM. 253 00:13:23,333 --> 00:13:25,343 NOT ALL OF THE SITE HERE HAS BEEN EXCAVATED, HAS IT? 254 00:13:25,367 --> 00:13:26,767 NO. 255 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:31,700 ONLY I CAN SAY 15% OF THE SITE HAS BEEN EXCAVATED. 256 00:13:31,733 --> 00:13:33,700 THE REST IS EXISTENT UNDER THE GROUND. 257 00:13:33,733 --> 00:13:36,933 WOW, SO 85% OF PETRA HASN'T BEEN... 258 00:13:36,967 --> 00:13:41,600 EVEN MORE... EVEN MORE 80% OF PETRA. 259 00:13:41,633 --> 00:13:44,800 I'M EXPECTING, ACTUALLY, IN THE FUTURE, 260 00:13:44,833 --> 00:13:49,300 TO FIND A LOT OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL ARTIFACTS, 261 00:13:49,333 --> 00:13:52,233 VERY UNIQUE AND VALUABLE THINGS. 262 00:13:54,700 --> 00:13:57,133 WHY DON'T WE DIG IT UP? 263 00:13:57,167 --> 00:14:01,133 WELL, YOU KNOW, JAMIE, THIS IS ACTUALLY... 264 00:14:01,167 --> 00:14:02,967 IT'S VERY COSTLY. 265 00:14:03,067 --> 00:14:05,967 AND THE OTHER THINGS, IT IS ACTUALLY... 266 00:14:06,067 --> 00:14:08,433 IT'S A VERY DELICATE JOB FOR ARCHAEOLOGISTS. 267 00:14:08,467 --> 00:14:09,900 SURE, BUT IT'S EXACTLY 268 00:14:09,933 --> 00:14:11,767 WHAT WE WANT TO FIND, ISN'T IT? 269 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:14,076 YOU KNOW, THIS COULD TELL US SO MUCH MORE ABOUT THE NABATAEANS. 270 00:14:14,100 --> 00:14:15,133 RIGHT. 271 00:14:15,167 --> 00:14:17,200 THE MOST IMPORTANT THING 272 00:14:17,233 --> 00:14:20,633 IS TO PRESERVE WHAT YOU HAVE EXCAVATED. 273 00:14:20,667 --> 00:14:22,400 IF YOU LEAVE IT EXPOSED, THEN... 274 00:14:22,433 --> 00:14:24,533 IT'S BETTER TO LEAVE IT UNDER THE GROUND 275 00:14:24,567 --> 00:14:26,066 THAN TO EXCAVATE IT. 276 00:14:26,067 --> 00:14:28,066 OH, I'M NOT SURE I AGREE WITH YOU. 277 00:14:28,067 --> 00:14:29,676 ANYWAY, CAN YOU SHOW ME SOME MORE OF THE OTHER TOMB? 278 00:14:29,700 --> 00:14:31,700 YES, YES. PLEASE. 279 00:14:37,333 --> 00:14:41,066 Butler: PEOPLE RIGHT BACK INTO AS FAR AS WE CAN SEE 280 00:14:41,067 --> 00:14:44,300 HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR TREASURE IN THE PLACE. 281 00:14:44,333 --> 00:14:45,767 NOW, IN THE FIRST INSTANCE, 282 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:47,933 THAT PROBABLY ISN'T TOO SURPRISING 283 00:14:47,967 --> 00:14:50,233 BECAUSE WHERE IT WAS AND WHAT IT WAS 284 00:14:50,267 --> 00:14:52,100 MEANT THAT SIGNIFICANT TREASURES 285 00:14:52,133 --> 00:14:55,066 PROBABLY WERE STORED THERE AT ONE TIME. 286 00:14:55,067 --> 00:14:57,133 YOU OKAY? OKAY. 287 00:15:03,900 --> 00:15:07,500 Narrator: ACCESS TO THE INSIDE OF THE TREASURY WAS RARE ENOUGH, 288 00:15:07,533 --> 00:15:09,400 BUT FOR A JOURNALIST LIKE JAMIE 289 00:15:09,433 --> 00:15:12,233 TO BE ALLOWED TO GO DOWN INTO THE TOMBS BELOW 290 00:15:12,267 --> 00:15:14,433 WAS LITERALLY UNHEARD OF. 291 00:15:20,500 --> 00:15:22,533 THE TOMBS BENEATH THE TREASURY 292 00:15:22,567 --> 00:15:26,833 WERE EXCAVATED BY DR. FARAJAT BACK IN 2004 293 00:15:26,867 --> 00:15:29,500 AND REVEALED A SERIES OF ROYAL BURIALS, 294 00:15:29,533 --> 00:15:34,067 SKELETONS, AND OFFERINGS TO THE DEAD. 295 00:15:34,100 --> 00:15:36,300 I THINK THIS IS THE MAIN TOMB. 296 00:15:36,333 --> 00:15:38,300 IT'S FOR A NOBLE PERSON 297 00:15:38,333 --> 00:15:41,767 OR KING OR A QUEEN. 298 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:43,133 RIGHT. 299 00:15:43,167 --> 00:15:45,300 AND NEXT TO IT, THERE IS A NICHE, 300 00:15:45,333 --> 00:15:49,133 AND THE NICHE THEY USED, ACTUALLY, 301 00:15:49,167 --> 00:15:54,633 FOR PUTTING THE MEN, GUARD IN THAT TIME. 302 00:15:54,667 --> 00:15:58,900 AND I SHOW YOU THESE HOLES. 303 00:15:58,933 --> 00:16:01,167 ACTUALLY, THERE ARE MANY OF THEM. 304 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:03,800 THESE ACTUALLY WERE USED 305 00:16:03,833 --> 00:16:09,367 FOR HANGING, ACTUALLY, THE OFFERS. 306 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:11,300 PEOPLE USED TO COME HERE TO VISIT THE TOMB 307 00:16:11,333 --> 00:16:12,667 AND THEY'D BRING OFFERS WITH THEM. 308 00:16:12,700 --> 00:16:13,700 RIGHT. 309 00:16:13,733 --> 00:16:16,833 OVER HERE, ALSO, BELOW THIS NICHE, 310 00:16:16,867 --> 00:16:23,167 WE FOUND A FIGURINE FOR APHRODITE OR AL-UZZA, 311 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:27,767 ONE OF THE MAIN DEITIES, ACTUALLY, AT THAT TIME. 312 00:16:43,300 --> 00:16:47,600 PETRA IS A WARREN OF TOMBS AND CAVES CUT INTO THE ROCK. 313 00:16:47,633 --> 00:16:50,067 IT'S A PRE-CHRISTIAN GHOST TOWN, 314 00:16:50,100 --> 00:16:52,333 AND EVEN WITH ALL THE TOURISTS AROUND, 315 00:16:52,367 --> 00:16:54,967 IT CAN BE QUITE AN EERIE PLACE. 316 00:16:59,500 --> 00:17:00,800 SO, WERE THE BEDOUIN TRIBES 317 00:17:00,833 --> 00:17:02,933 LIVING HERE UNTIL QUITE RECENTLY? 318 00:17:02,967 --> 00:17:05,267 YES, THEY WERE LIVING IN THE CAVES OF PETRA 319 00:17:05,300 --> 00:17:07,200 UNTIL 1987. WOW. 320 00:17:07,233 --> 00:17:09,333 SO PEOPLE WOULD ACTUALLY BE LIVING HERE? 321 00:17:09,367 --> 00:17:11,733 YES, THEY WERE LIVING IN THE CAVES, 322 00:17:11,767 --> 00:17:14,233 BUT THEY WERE MOVED BY THE GOVERNMENT 323 00:17:14,267 --> 00:17:16,433 OUTSIDE THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE. 324 00:17:16,467 --> 00:17:18,467 AND I'M THINKING THERE WAS A NEW ZEALAND LADY 325 00:17:18,500 --> 00:17:19,567 WHO LIVED HERE, AS WELL. 326 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:20,800 YES. 327 00:17:20,833 --> 00:17:27,800 HER NAME IS MARGUERITE, AND SHE CAME IN 1979. 328 00:17:27,833 --> 00:17:32,967 AND SHE WAS SITTING ON THE STEPS OF THE TREASURY, 329 00:17:33,067 --> 00:17:38,600 AND SHE MEET MOHAMMAD OF AMMAN FOR THE FIRST TIME THERE. 330 00:17:38,633 --> 00:17:42,800 THEN THEY GOT MARRIED, AND THEY HAD A CAVE. 331 00:17:42,833 --> 00:17:44,400 AND YOU KNOW... YOU REMEMBER... 332 00:17:44,433 --> 00:17:46,933 YOU KNOW THAT QUEEN ELIZABETH, WHEN SHE CAME TO PETRA, 333 00:17:46,967 --> 00:17:51,400 ELIZABETH, SHE VISITED HER IN HER CAVE, 334 00:17:51,433 --> 00:17:54,167 AND SHE HAD A CUP OF TEA WITH HER. 335 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:55,640 SO, HANG ON, SHE LIVED IN A CAVE HERE 336 00:17:55,667 --> 00:17:56,800 AND HAD TEA WITH THE QUEEN? 337 00:17:56,833 --> 00:17:59,400 YES. I KNOW ABOUT THAT, THAT STORY. 338 00:17:59,433 --> 00:18:00,567 DID SHE GET IT PAINTED, 339 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:02,300 MAKE IT ALL NICE BEFORE THE QUEEN ARRIVED? 340 00:18:02,333 --> 00:18:03,533 UH, NO, ACTUALLY. 341 00:18:03,567 --> 00:18:05,833 [ BOTH LAUGH ] 342 00:18:06,867 --> 00:18:10,867 Fanthorpe: THE BEDOUINS, 343 00:18:10,900 --> 00:18:13,700 WHO HAVE BEEN THERE A VERY LONG TIME 344 00:18:13,733 --> 00:18:15,800 AND KNOW THE RUIN WELL, 345 00:18:15,833 --> 00:18:20,767 ARE CONVINCED THAT THERE ARE HUGE TREASURES BURIED THERE, 346 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:23,967 AND THEY'VE BEEN THERE LONG ENOUGH 347 00:18:24,067 --> 00:18:27,467 AND THEY'VE UNDERSTOOD THE CITY WELL ENOUGH 348 00:18:27,500 --> 00:18:31,500 TO BE RELIABLE GUIDES AND GUARDIANS. 349 00:18:31,533 --> 00:18:35,900 AND IF WE TAKE NOTE OF THEIR THINKING, 350 00:18:35,933 --> 00:18:40,066 THEY WOULD NOT STILL BE WORKING SO ASSIDUOUSLY 351 00:18:40,067 --> 00:18:43,267 TO FIND ANYTHING THAT'S STILL THERE 352 00:18:43,300 --> 00:18:47,200 UNLESS THEY HAD A GOOD REASON TO BELIEVE 353 00:18:47,233 --> 00:18:51,333 THAT THERE ARE STILL VAST TREASURES THERE. 354 00:18:54,633 --> 00:18:58,100 Butler: PETRA WAS THE PREMIER INN OF ITS TIME. 355 00:18:58,133 --> 00:19:00,300 IT WAS A HUGE HOTEL. 356 00:19:00,333 --> 00:19:05,066 IT WAS KIND OF LIKE A SORT OF A LAS VEGAS, IN A WAY, 357 00:19:05,067 --> 00:19:07,066 SO THERE WAS LOTS OF PEOPLE COMING THROUGH. 358 00:19:07,067 --> 00:19:11,467 THERE WAS LOTS OF STUFF HAPPENING, SO STUFF GETS LOST. 359 00:19:11,500 --> 00:19:14,066 SOMETIMES, IT'S JUST THE MINUTIA OF LIFE, 360 00:19:14,067 --> 00:19:19,300 POTTERY BOWLS OR WOODEN STAKES OR WHATEVER IT MAY BE, 361 00:19:19,333 --> 00:19:22,500 BUT PRECIOUS THINGS GET LOST, TOO. 362 00:19:22,533 --> 00:19:27,300 NOW, THE SAND OFTEN GIVES BACK WHAT IT'S TAKEN, 363 00:19:27,333 --> 00:19:30,300 AND THE LOCALS WHO LIVE IN THE AREA, 364 00:19:30,333 --> 00:19:33,633 WHO ARE THE BEDOUIN, DO MAKE FINDS, 365 00:19:33,667 --> 00:19:35,233 EITHER BECAUSE THEY KNOW WHERE TO LOOK 366 00:19:35,267 --> 00:19:37,633 OR JUST BECAUSE THEY CHANCE UPON THINGS. 367 00:19:46,833 --> 00:19:49,800 Narrator: THERE WOULDN'T BE A CITY AT PETRA IF THE NABATAEANS 368 00:19:49,833 --> 00:19:52,800 HADN'T BEEN ABLE TO CONTROL A CONSTANT SOURCE OF WATER 369 00:19:52,833 --> 00:19:55,066 IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DESERT. 370 00:19:55,067 --> 00:19:56,667 FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, 371 00:19:56,700 --> 00:20:01,067 WATER HAS MEANT ONE THING HERE... LIFE. 372 00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:06,000 ACCORDING TO ARAB TRADITION, 373 00:20:06,033 --> 00:20:10,633 MOSES, OR MUSA, AS HE'S KNOWN, STRUCK A ROCK WITH HIS STAFF, 374 00:20:10,667 --> 00:20:13,400 SENDING WATER CASCADING INTO THE CITY, 375 00:20:13,433 --> 00:20:16,700 DOWN ROCKS VERY MUCH LIKE THESE. 376 00:20:23,500 --> 00:20:25,400 IN FACT, THE ACTUAL SPOT 377 00:20:25,433 --> 00:20:27,967 WHERE MOSES IS SAID TO HAVE STRUCK THE ROCK 378 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:29,900 HAS BEEN TURNED INTO A SHRINE 379 00:20:29,933 --> 00:20:32,767 IN THE HEART OF THE MODERN CITY OF PETRA. 380 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:35,767 THE LOCAL PEOPLE STILL USE THE NATURAL SPRING TODAY 381 00:20:35,800 --> 00:20:37,533 FOR FRESH DRINKING WATER, 382 00:20:37,567 --> 00:20:40,100 WHICH IS THEN CARRIED DOWN THROUGH THE TOWN 383 00:20:40,133 --> 00:20:43,333 VIA THE ORIGINAL GULLIES ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD. 384 00:20:47,367 --> 00:20:52,167 IT WAS A COMBINATION OF AN IDEAL TRADING CENTER. 385 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:57,233 IT WAS BRILLIANTLY FORTIFIED AND NATURALLY FORTIFIED, 386 00:20:57,267 --> 00:21:03,467 AND IT WAS, IN A SENSE, AN ARTIFICIAL OASIS AT WHICH 387 00:21:03,500 --> 00:21:09,533 THE WATER NEVER FAILED BECAUSE THEY KNEW HOW TO CONSERVE IT. 388 00:21:15,333 --> 00:21:17,600 Narrator: WHAT SECRETS FROM PETRA 389 00:21:17,633 --> 00:21:19,600 LIE IN THIS RELIC DEALER'S STORE ROOM? 390 00:21:19,633 --> 00:21:21,066 WHAT DO THE LOCAL TRIBES 391 00:21:21,067 --> 00:21:24,200 KNOW ABOUT TREASURES STILL BURIED OUT IN THE DESERT? 392 00:21:24,233 --> 00:21:26,933 AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN JAMIE HEADS OUT INTO THE NIGHT 393 00:21:26,967 --> 00:21:29,066 WITH THE BEDOUINS TO FIND THEM? 394 00:21:29,067 --> 00:21:31,700 THIS REMARKABLE ADVENTURE CONTINUES 395 00:21:31,733 --> 00:21:35,133 WHEN "FORBIDDEN HISTORY" RETURNS. 396 00:21:38,133 --> 00:21:39,843 Narrator: JOURNALIST JAMIE THEAKSTON IS ON THE TRAIL 397 00:21:39,867 --> 00:21:40,967 OF THE LOST TREASURES 398 00:21:41,067 --> 00:21:44,066 OF THE ANCIENT CITY OF PETRA IN JORDAN, 399 00:21:44,067 --> 00:21:45,633 NOW THOUGHT TO BE BURIED 400 00:21:45,667 --> 00:21:48,367 DEEP UNDER CENTURIES OF SOIL AND ROCKS. 401 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:51,133 SO FAR, HE'S BEEN GIVEN EXCLUSIVE ACCESS 402 00:21:51,167 --> 00:21:54,800 TO THE MOST ICONIC BUILDING ON THE WHOLE SITE, THE TREASURY, 403 00:21:54,833 --> 00:21:57,467 AS WELL AS THE ROYAL TOMBS BENEATH IT, 404 00:21:57,500 --> 00:21:59,667 BUT BOTH WERE EMPTY. 405 00:21:59,700 --> 00:22:00,933 IN FACT, THE WHOLE SITE 406 00:22:00,967 --> 00:22:04,967 SEEMS DEVOID OF ANYTHING EXCEPT TOMBS AND ROCKS. 407 00:22:05,067 --> 00:22:09,967 SO WHERE DID ALL THE STATUES, DECORATIONS, AND TREASURES GO? 408 00:22:10,067 --> 00:22:11,333 SADLY, IT'S LIKELY 409 00:22:11,367 --> 00:22:13,867 THAT EVERYTHING THAT COULD'VE BEEN TAKEN AND PILLAGED 410 00:22:13,900 --> 00:22:15,933 WAS REMOVED AND SOLD ON 411 00:22:15,967 --> 00:22:18,500 TO DEALERS AND MUSEUMS AROUND THE WORLD. 412 00:22:18,533 --> 00:22:21,600 Cox: THERE'S STILL LOTS TO BE FOUND. 413 00:22:21,633 --> 00:22:24,066 I MEAN, THE AREA AROUND PETRA IS FULL OF PLACES WHERE BEDOUIN 414 00:22:24,067 --> 00:22:26,900 AND LOCALS ARE DIGGING THIS STUFF UP ALL THE TIME. 415 00:22:26,933 --> 00:22:28,867 YOU'VE GOT A RELICS MARKET 416 00:22:28,900 --> 00:22:31,867 THAT IS BEING VERY EFFICIENTLY RUN. 417 00:22:39,800 --> 00:22:42,100 Narrator: JAMIE WAS PUT IN TOUCH WITH A RELIC DEALER 418 00:22:42,133 --> 00:22:44,367 IN THE CAPITAL OF JORDAN, AMMAN, 419 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:46,800 WHO IS SAID TO HAVE BUILT UP A SUBSTANTIAL COLLECTION 420 00:22:46,833 --> 00:22:50,733 OF RELICS AND ARTIFACTS FROM THE PETRA SITE OVER THE YEARS, 421 00:22:50,767 --> 00:22:53,067 AND HE AGREED TO LET JAMIE SEE IT. 422 00:22:58,333 --> 00:23:02,233 THE BEDOUINS WILL UNEARTH PIECES OF POTTERY 423 00:23:02,267 --> 00:23:04,933 OR OTHER SIMPLE ARTIFACTS 424 00:23:04,967 --> 00:23:08,767 FROM MAYBE MILLENNIA AND MORE AGO, 425 00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:13,400 AND THEY WILL THEN TAKE THEM OFF TO A LOCAL DEALER 426 00:23:13,433 --> 00:23:18,167 AND PERHAPS GET 10 OR 20 DINARS FOR THE RELIC THEY'VE FOUND. 427 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:23,567 IT WILL MAKE ITS WAY TO AMMAN AND SELL FOR A HUNDRED TIMES 428 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:30,100 WHAT THE BEDOUIN DISCOVERER WAS GIVEN BY THE DEALER IN PETRA. 429 00:23:36,267 --> 00:23:37,900 Narrator: JAMIE HAD BEEN GIVEN A NAME 430 00:23:37,933 --> 00:23:40,600 AND ADDRESS IN THE OUTSKIRTS OF AMMAN. 431 00:23:40,633 --> 00:23:42,867 THE RAHANI FAMILY HAD BEEN BUYING RELICS 432 00:23:42,900 --> 00:23:45,700 FROM PETRA AND OTHER SITES ACROSS THE MIDDLE EAST 433 00:23:45,733 --> 00:23:47,933 FOR MANY DECADES. 434 00:23:47,967 --> 00:23:50,400 WHAT THEY HAD AMASSED WAS NOW BELIEVED TO BE 435 00:23:50,433 --> 00:23:53,733 THE LARGEST SINGLE COLLECTION IN THE WORLD. 436 00:23:53,767 --> 00:23:57,467 NEEDLESS TO SAY, IT'S RARELY SEEN ON CAMERA. 437 00:23:57,500 --> 00:23:59,567 THEY ARRANGED FOR JAMIE TO SEE IT 438 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:01,633 BUT DECLINED TO BE INTERVIEWED. 439 00:24:09,267 --> 00:24:11,867 HERE WE GO. 440 00:24:11,900 --> 00:24:14,066 OH, WOW. 441 00:24:14,067 --> 00:24:16,800 [ CHUCKLES ] 442 00:24:16,833 --> 00:24:19,267 THIS WAS NOT WHAT I WAS EXPECTING AT ALL. 443 00:24:19,300 --> 00:24:22,133 THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE. 444 00:24:22,167 --> 00:24:24,067 AND THESE ARE OIL LAMPS, RIGHT? 445 00:24:24,100 --> 00:24:26,467 OIL LAMP, YEAH. MY GOD. 446 00:24:26,500 --> 00:24:28,509 I'VE SEEN MAYBE ONE OR TWO OF THESE IN A MUSEUM BEFORE. 447 00:24:28,533 --> 00:24:30,233 I'VE NEVER SEEN THIS MANY. 448 00:24:30,267 --> 00:24:32,066 AND THIS IS... SO ALL THIS... 449 00:24:32,067 --> 00:24:33,233 THIS IS ALL FROM PETRA, RIGHT? 450 00:24:33,267 --> 00:24:34,767 ALL OF THEM PETRA, YEAH. 451 00:24:34,800 --> 00:24:38,867 SO ALL OF THIS WOULD'VE BEEN DUG UP FROM UNDERNEATH THE CITY? 452 00:24:38,900 --> 00:24:40,400 YEAH. WOW. 453 00:24:40,433 --> 00:24:43,300 THAT'S AMAZING. LOOK AT ALL THESE. 454 00:24:43,333 --> 00:24:47,900 I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING QUITE... 455 00:24:47,933 --> 00:24:49,276 CAN I HAVE A LOOK AT THESE DOWN HERE? 456 00:24:49,300 --> 00:24:53,733 AND WHAT ARE THESE... ARE THESE AMPHORA, ARE THEY? 457 00:24:53,767 --> 00:24:55,500 IS THAT WHAT THESE ARE? 458 00:24:55,533 --> 00:24:58,333 [ BLOWS ] WOW. 459 00:24:58,367 --> 00:25:00,167 AND THIS LOOKS LIKE AN OSSUARY, RIGHT? 460 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:01,200 YEAH. 461 00:25:01,233 --> 00:25:02,700 WHERE THEY'D PUT THE BONES? SURE. 462 00:25:02,733 --> 00:25:08,067 THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE. 463 00:25:08,100 --> 00:25:11,433 AND ROMAN GLASS PERFUME BOTTLES? 464 00:25:11,467 --> 00:25:15,767 YEAH, PERFUME, ALCOHOL, AND SOME FOR WINE. 465 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:18,066 RIGHT, OKAY. THERE'S JUST SO MUCH OF IT. 466 00:25:18,067 --> 00:25:20,067 I CAN'T BELIEVE IT. 467 00:25:20,100 --> 00:25:21,933 AND THESE... OH, WOW. 468 00:25:21,967 --> 00:25:24,333 THESE ARE COPPER SCROLLS? YES. 469 00:25:24,367 --> 00:25:27,067 YOU SEE, I'VE NEVER ACTUALLY SEEN THEM BEFORE. 470 00:25:27,100 --> 00:25:28,500 I'VE SEEN PICTURES OF THESE. 471 00:25:28,533 --> 00:25:30,300 THAT'S AMAZING. 472 00:25:32,333 --> 00:25:33,900 AND I'VE SEEN THESE TWO-HEADED... 473 00:25:33,933 --> 00:25:35,833 IS THIS GREEK? 474 00:25:35,867 --> 00:25:38,100 GREEK. 475 00:25:38,133 --> 00:25:41,533 HELLENIC. HELLENIC, YEAH, YEAH. 476 00:25:41,567 --> 00:25:44,067 I'M JUST... I CAN'T BELIEVE JUST HOW MUCH THERE IS. 477 00:25:44,100 --> 00:25:45,067 [ CHUCKLES ] 478 00:25:45,100 --> 00:25:50,767 AND COPPER ARROWHEADS AND KNIVES. 479 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,767 LOOK AT ALL THIS. THERE'S JUST SO MUCH OF IT. 480 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:56,066 AND SO, HOW OLD WOULD THESE BE? 481 00:25:56,067 --> 00:25:58,467 4,000. 4,000 YEARS OLD? 482 00:25:58,500 --> 00:25:59,867 YEAH. AT LEAST. 483 00:25:59,900 --> 00:26:01,900 AND IT'S AMAZING TO THINK THAT ALL OF THIS STUFF 484 00:26:01,933 --> 00:26:03,543 IS JUST UNDER THE GROUND WHEN YOU'RE IN PETRA. 485 00:26:03,567 --> 00:26:04,833 YEAH. 486 00:26:04,867 --> 00:26:07,100 THERE'S SO MUCH TREASURE DOWN THERE, IS THERE NOT? 487 00:26:07,133 --> 00:26:08,800 SURE, OF COURSE. 488 00:26:08,833 --> 00:26:10,467 AMAZING. 489 00:26:10,500 --> 00:26:12,467 AMAZING. 490 00:26:16,933 --> 00:26:18,467 Cox: THERE'S STILL LOTS TO BE FOUND. 491 00:26:18,500 --> 00:26:23,367 YOU KNOW, THE AREA AROUND PETRA IS FULL OF CAVES 492 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,233 AND GRAVE SITES 493 00:26:26,267 --> 00:26:29,066 AND PLACES WHERE BEDOUIN AND LOCALS 494 00:26:29,067 --> 00:26:31,066 ARE DIGGING THIS STUFF UP ALL THE TIME, 495 00:26:31,067 --> 00:26:33,400 AND AT THAT POINT, 496 00:26:33,433 --> 00:26:36,667 YOU HAVE ALMOST LIKE AN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL MARKET 497 00:26:36,700 --> 00:26:38,067 TAKING HOLD OF THIS, 498 00:26:38,100 --> 00:26:40,200 BECAUSE YOU HAVE GOOD STUFF SENT OFF TO THE GULF. 499 00:26:40,233 --> 00:26:43,433 YOU HAVE THE TOURISTY STUFF THAT SOME OF IT'S SOLD LOCALLY. 500 00:26:43,467 --> 00:26:46,867 IT BECOMES A LARGE-SCALE BUSINESS. 501 00:26:50,067 --> 00:26:52,067 OH, NOW, THESE LOOK FAMILIAR. 502 00:26:52,100 --> 00:26:53,333 OH, RIGHT. OKAY. 503 00:26:53,367 --> 00:26:55,400 ARE THESE CUNEIFORM TABLETS? 504 00:26:55,433 --> 00:26:57,066 YES. OH, MY GOD. 505 00:26:57,067 --> 00:26:58,767 SO, THESE MUST BE WHAT? HOW OLD? 506 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:01,400 IT'S SUMERIAN, 6,000 B.C. OKAY. 507 00:27:01,433 --> 00:27:03,567 SO THIS IS THE EARLIEST FORM OF WRITING, 508 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:05,400 8,000 YEARS OLD. 509 00:27:05,433 --> 00:27:07,433 AND I'VE SEEN PICTURES OF THESE, 510 00:27:07,467 --> 00:27:09,767 BUT I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS 511 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:11,467 IN THE FLESH, AS IT WERE. 512 00:27:11,500 --> 00:27:13,533 AND I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT MY NOSE 513 00:27:13,567 --> 00:27:17,600 IS THIS CLOSE TO SOMETHING THAT'S 8,000 YEARS OLD. 514 00:27:17,633 --> 00:27:19,400 THIS IS AMAZING. 515 00:27:26,433 --> 00:27:28,433 THIS IS EGYPTIAN. 516 00:27:28,467 --> 00:27:32,400 EGYPTIAN? MUMMY, SPOTTED IN A COFFIN. 517 00:27:32,433 --> 00:27:33,933 WOW. THAT IS... 518 00:27:33,967 --> 00:27:36,567 AND YOU CAN SEE THE FABRIC STILL. 519 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:37,900 AND IT'S JUST... 520 00:27:37,933 --> 00:27:41,133 WHAT AMAZES ME IS JUST HOW WELL-PRESERVED EVERYTHING IS. 521 00:27:41,167 --> 00:27:42,867 I MEAN, THAT IS JUST EXTRAORDINARY. 522 00:27:42,900 --> 00:27:44,167 YEAH, IT WAS. 523 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:46,233 AND PRICELESS. 524 00:27:46,267 --> 00:27:49,233 [ CHUCKLES ] AND PRICELESS. SURE. 525 00:27:55,300 --> 00:27:57,667 Butler: THESE FINDS THAT THE BEDOUIN MAKE 526 00:27:57,700 --> 00:28:03,400 DON'T USUALLY GET PASSED ON TO THE HISTORICAL AUTHORITIES 527 00:28:03,433 --> 00:28:07,067 OF JORDAN OR THE SURROUNDING REGIONS. 528 00:28:07,100 --> 00:28:11,333 IT'S MUCH BETTER FOR WHOEVER IT IS TO PASS IT ON 529 00:28:11,367 --> 00:28:14,767 TO AN IN-BETWEEN DEALER, IF YOU LIKE, 530 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:17,233 WHO WILL BUY IT ON THE BLACK MARKET, 531 00:28:17,267 --> 00:28:19,933 PAY A VERY, VERY SMALL PRICE FOR IT, 532 00:28:19,967 --> 00:28:22,800 AND THEN HE THEN WILL SELL IT ON. 533 00:28:22,833 --> 00:28:24,267 IT WILL BE SOLD ON AGAIN, 534 00:28:24,300 --> 00:28:26,767 AND WILL IT OFTEN END UP IN THE PRIVATE COLLECTION 535 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,767 OF SOME PERSON LIVING DOWN IN ARABIA 536 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:33,600 OR EVEN UP IN ISRAEL, 537 00:28:33,633 --> 00:28:36,533 WHO WILL HAVE PAID A MASSIVE AMOUNT MORE FOR IT 538 00:28:36,567 --> 00:28:39,867 THAN WAS GIVEN IN THE FIRST PLACE. 539 00:28:42,900 --> 00:28:45,900 Narrator: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN JAMIE SITS DOWN 540 00:28:45,933 --> 00:28:47,733 WITH THE LOCAL RELIC HUNTERS IN PETRA? 541 00:28:47,767 --> 00:28:51,567 WHAT IS HE SHOWN, AND WHAT SECRETS ARE REVEALED? 542 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:53,667 AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THEY ALL 543 00:28:53,700 --> 00:28:56,267 HEAD OUT INTO THE DESERT AT NIGHT? 544 00:28:56,300 --> 00:29:02,567 MORE STARTLING REVELATIONS WHEN "FORBIDDEN HISTORY" RETURNS. 545 00:29:06,067 --> 00:29:07,943 Narrator: JOURNALIST JAMIE THEAKSTON IS ON THE TRAIL 546 00:29:07,967 --> 00:29:10,533 OF THE LOST TREASURES OF THE CITY OF PETRA IN JORDAN, 547 00:29:10,567 --> 00:29:14,433 LEFT BEHIND BY ITS PREVIOUS INHABITANTS, THE NABATAEANS, 548 00:29:14,467 --> 00:29:18,167 AND THE COUNTLESS VISITORS DOWN THROUGH THE CENTURIES. 549 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:21,800 HE'S ALREADY BEEN ON AN EXTENSIVE TOUR OF THE SITE 550 00:29:21,833 --> 00:29:24,967 WITH LOCAL HISTORIAN DR. SULEIMAN FARAJAT, 551 00:29:25,067 --> 00:29:27,400 ONLY TO FIND EMPTY TOMBS AND CAVES. 552 00:29:27,433 --> 00:29:31,167 WHATEVER WAS HERE SEEMS TO HAVE LONG GONE, 553 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:33,767 BUT WHEN HE VISITED A RELIC DEALER IN AMMAN, 554 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:36,933 HE WAS TOLD THAT TREASURES WERE STILL BEING DISCOVERED 555 00:29:36,967 --> 00:29:40,433 BY THE LOCAL BEDOUIN TRIBES WHO LIVED NEAR THE ANCIENT SITE. 556 00:29:40,467 --> 00:29:44,300 IF ANYONE KNEW WHERE SOMETHING COULD BE FOUND, IT WAS THEM. 557 00:29:44,333 --> 00:29:45,600 Fanthorpe: I, FOR ONE, 558 00:29:45,633 --> 00:29:49,600 TRUST THE BEDOUIN KNOWLEDGE OF THE AREA. 559 00:29:49,633 --> 00:29:52,100 THAT'S PRETTY GOOD EVIDENCE 560 00:29:52,133 --> 00:29:58,367 THAT THERE IS A SUBSTANTIAL TREASURE WAITING TO BE FOUND. 561 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:09,533 Narrator: BACK IN PETRA THAT EVENING, 562 00:30:09,567 --> 00:30:12,400 JAMIE WAS PUT IN CONTACT WITH SOME LOCAL BEDOUINS 563 00:30:12,433 --> 00:30:14,333 WHO STILL EXCAVATE IN THE AREA 564 00:30:14,367 --> 00:30:17,767 AND WHO SUPPLY THE EVER-HUNGRY COLLECTORS. 565 00:30:22,267 --> 00:30:24,767 HE'D BEEN GIVEN AN ADDRESS IN THE NEW TOWN 566 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:26,533 THAT HAD BEEN BUILT FOR THE BEDOUIN TRIBES 567 00:30:26,567 --> 00:30:29,400 THAT USED TO LIVE INSIDE THE ANCIENT CITY 568 00:30:29,433 --> 00:30:32,200 AND WAS TOLD THAT THEY WOULD SHOW HIM SOME OF THE ITEMS 569 00:30:32,233 --> 00:30:34,000 THEY HAD DUG UP. 570 00:30:37,967 --> 00:30:40,567 AHMAD, DO YOU THINK THAT THERE IS MAYBE TREASURE 571 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:41,933 STILL BURIED UP AT PETRA? 572 00:30:41,967 --> 00:30:44,967 YEAH, STILL... STILL MANY THINGS BECAUSE, 573 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,267 YOU KNOW, EXACTLY FROM LIKE 60% OF PETRA 574 00:30:48,300 --> 00:30:50,700 UNTIL NOW UNDER THE GROUND. 575 00:30:50,733 --> 00:30:53,500 AND SOMETIME IN THE WINTERTIMES, YOU KNOW, 576 00:30:53,533 --> 00:30:56,100 YOU FIND MANY BEDOUINS GO AROUND TO, 577 00:30:56,133 --> 00:30:58,800 AND THERE'S A WOMEN'S MOUNDS AND KIDS, 578 00:30:58,833 --> 00:31:00,467 GO TO LOOK FOR THE COINS. 579 00:31:00,500 --> 00:31:02,900 IT'S LIKE ROMANS OR NABATAEANS. 580 00:31:02,933 --> 00:31:06,067 THE MONEY... HE USE IT LIKE IN ROMAN AND NABATAEAN TIMES. 581 00:31:06,100 --> 00:31:08,833 SOME OF THEM DIG IN THE NIGHT. 582 00:31:08,867 --> 00:31:11,600 WHY DO THEY HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL IT'S NIGHTTIME? 583 00:31:11,633 --> 00:31:13,433 BECAUSE IT'S NOT ALLOWED. OKAY. 584 00:31:13,467 --> 00:31:14,733 SO YOU CAN'T... YOU CAN'T DIG... 585 00:31:14,767 --> 00:31:17,800 FROM THE GOVERNMENT, YEAH, IT'S NOT ALLOWED. 586 00:31:17,833 --> 00:31:19,500 IN THE WINTERTIME, ANYBODY GO 587 00:31:19,533 --> 00:31:22,066 BECAUSE HE KNOWS IT'S THE WINTERS OF THE WATER, 588 00:31:22,067 --> 00:31:23,567 HE CAN FIND THE COINS. 589 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:26,833 SOMETHING OTHER, LIKE BATTERY OR JAR OR LAMP OR SOMETHING. 590 00:31:26,867 --> 00:31:29,733 HE GO IN THE NIGHT BECAUSE IT'S NOT ALLOWED. 591 00:31:32,467 --> 00:31:33,909 DO YOU EVER GO DIGGING? WELL, OF COURSE, YES. 592 00:31:33,933 --> 00:31:35,667 BUT IT'S NOT ALLOWED. 593 00:31:35,700 --> 00:31:38,467 BUT WE TRY TO MAKE OUR LIVING, LIKE... 594 00:31:38,500 --> 00:31:40,900 SOMETIMES, WE GO, ALL OF US, YOU KNOW. 595 00:31:40,933 --> 00:31:42,633 AND SO, HOW DO YOU MAKE A LIVING? 596 00:31:42,667 --> 00:31:44,933 WHAT, DO YOU SELL... DO YOU SELL WHAT YOU FIND? 597 00:31:44,967 --> 00:31:47,767 SOME OF THEM, YOU KNOW, WE SELL IT SOMEBODY. 598 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:50,867 THEY'RE SOME PEOPLE SPECIALTY BUY SOMETHING LIKE THIS. 599 00:31:50,900 --> 00:31:52,200 AND SOME OF THEM, 600 00:31:52,233 --> 00:31:54,700 WE KEEP IT SOMETHING, LIKE A TREASURE OR SOMETHING. 601 00:31:54,733 --> 00:31:55,700 YOU DIDN'T FIND... 602 00:31:55,733 --> 00:31:57,200 TEAPOT? YEAH. 603 00:31:57,233 --> 00:32:01,600 LIKE, SOME OF US LIKE TO COLLECT SOME SPECIAL KIND OF MONEY, 604 00:32:01,633 --> 00:32:02,933 LIKE, THE NABATAEAN. 605 00:32:02,967 --> 00:32:05,233 BECAUSE THE NABATAEAN, YOU KNOW, IT'S FEW MONEY. 606 00:32:05,267 --> 00:32:06,367 NOT LIKE THE ROMAN. 607 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,067 THE ROMAN, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU FIND IT EVERYWHERE. 608 00:32:11,967 --> 00:32:14,500 Fanthorpe: ONE OF THE BIG FACTORS THERE, 609 00:32:14,533 --> 00:32:18,967 IN SOCIAL TERMS, IS THE WAY THAT THE BEDOUINS BEHAVE. 610 00:32:19,067 --> 00:32:21,767 THEY HAVE BEEN THERE FOR CENTURIES. 611 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:25,667 THEY REGARD IT AS THEIR TERRITORY, THEIR PROPERTY, 612 00:32:25,700 --> 00:32:28,200 AND THEY GET A LITTLE PIECE OF POTTERY 613 00:32:28,233 --> 00:32:33,900 OR THE ODD INSTRUMENT OR SPOON OR SOME OTHER PIECE OF CUTLERY, 614 00:32:33,933 --> 00:32:37,300 THEY WILL WANT TO LAY FIRST CLAIM TO IT. 615 00:32:37,333 --> 00:32:38,700 AS IT IS, 616 00:32:38,733 --> 00:32:43,067 THEY WILL PUT A GOOD PRICE ON IT AND SELL IT TO THE TOURISTS. 617 00:32:49,733 --> 00:32:51,267 Narrator: NEEDLESS TO SAY, 618 00:32:51,300 --> 00:32:53,933 THIS IS A NOT A SIDE OF PETRA THAT THE TOURISTS SEE, 619 00:32:53,967 --> 00:32:57,367 NOR A PART THAT THE AUTHORITIES WANT KNOWN. 620 00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:01,067 THEY SEE MANY OF THESE BEDOUINS AS THIEVES, 621 00:33:01,100 --> 00:33:04,700 BUT THE BEDOUINS TELL JAMIE THAT IT'S THEIR TERRITORIAL RIGHT 622 00:33:04,733 --> 00:33:08,433 TO LIVE AND DIG AT PETRA. 623 00:33:08,467 --> 00:33:12,733 SO, DO THE BEDOUIN KNOW WHERE THE TREASURE IS BURIED? 624 00:33:12,767 --> 00:33:14,167 OH, NOBODY KNOW, 625 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,633 BUT, YOU KNOW, THEY GO AND THEY DIGGING. 626 00:33:16,667 --> 00:33:17,943 SOME OF THEM, THEY FIND TREASURE, 627 00:33:17,967 --> 00:33:19,267 SOME OF THEM NOT. 628 00:33:19,300 --> 00:33:20,333 NOBODY KNOW. 629 00:33:20,367 --> 00:33:22,600 IF I KNOW THERE IS A TREASURE, I WILL GO. 630 00:33:22,633 --> 00:33:26,400 AND DO THE BEDOUIN BELIEVE THAT THAT TREASURE BELONGS TO THEM? 631 00:33:26,433 --> 00:33:30,267 IF IT WAS THEIR LAND, THE TREASURE IS THEIRS? 632 00:33:30,300 --> 00:33:31,600 YOU KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, 633 00:33:31,633 --> 00:33:34,300 LIKE, IF I FOUND IT, IT'S FOR ME. 634 00:33:34,333 --> 00:33:36,133 LIKE, HERE ON, FOR EXAMPLE, 635 00:33:36,167 --> 00:33:37,367 ALL THE BEDOUIN. 636 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,400 NOW, IF I FOUND THE GOLD, IT BELONGS TO ME. 637 00:33:40,433 --> 00:33:41,833 LIKE, BECAUSE THEY... 638 00:33:41,867 --> 00:33:44,400 WE ARE BELONG TO THE NABATAEAN PEOPLE. 639 00:33:44,433 --> 00:33:47,967 WE ARE THE BEDOUIN WHO'S LIKE TRAVEL AND TO STAY HERE 640 00:33:48,067 --> 00:33:51,400 AND, LIKE, OUR GRANDFATHER'S NABATAEAN. 641 00:33:51,433 --> 00:33:54,633 SO WE BELIEVE, LIKE EVERYTHING, WE FOUND IT, 642 00:33:54,667 --> 00:33:56,667 IT'S BELONG TO US. 643 00:33:56,700 --> 00:34:00,067 AND DO YOU HAVE ANY RELICS HERE IN YOUR HOUSE? 644 00:34:00,100 --> 00:34:02,167 DO YOU KEEP STUFF HERE, OR...? 645 00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:03,500 YES, WE KEEP. YEAH. 646 00:34:03,533 --> 00:34:05,243 IS THERE ANYTHING THAT YOU CAN SHOW ME THAT YOU HAVE? 647 00:34:05,267 --> 00:34:07,300 [ CONVERSING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE ] 648 00:34:09,967 --> 00:34:10,967 THANK YOU. 649 00:34:11,067 --> 00:34:13,067 [ CONVERSING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE ] 650 00:34:29,867 --> 00:34:31,600 SO, WHAT HAVE YOU GOT HERE? 651 00:34:31,633 --> 00:34:32,633 THIS WAS A JAR. 652 00:34:32,667 --> 00:34:34,933 IT WAS USED, LIKE, IN BYZANTINE TIMES. 653 00:34:34,967 --> 00:34:37,633 SO THE LAST TIME FOR THE PEOPLE CAN... 654 00:34:37,667 --> 00:34:39,167 THE FIRST TIME NABATAEANS 655 00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:40,933 AND AFTER ROMAN, THIS IS THE LAST TIME. 656 00:34:40,967 --> 00:34:43,400 IT'S THE BYZANTINES. IT'S MADE FROM THE BYZANTINES. 657 00:34:43,433 --> 00:34:46,267 SO, THIS IS WHAT, 2,000 YEARS OLD? 658 00:34:46,300 --> 00:34:48,133 YEAH, SOMETHING LIKE THIS. 2,000 YEARS OLD. 659 00:34:48,167 --> 00:34:49,767 BECAUSE I SAW JARS LIKE THIS 660 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:51,733 IN THE PRIVATE COLLECTION IN AMMAN. 661 00:34:51,767 --> 00:34:52,767 UH-HUH. YEAH. 662 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:55,067 AND IS THIS WORTH A LOT OF MONEY? 663 00:34:55,100 --> 00:34:57,133 YEAH, WHEN WE SELL IT, 664 00:34:57,167 --> 00:34:58,900 WE SELL IT SOMETIME WITH THE CHEAP PRICE. 665 00:34:58,933 --> 00:35:01,400 YOU KNOW, FOR US, WHEN WE SELL IT, 666 00:35:01,433 --> 00:35:03,833 LIKE ONE, TWO, EXACTLY, 200 DINAR. 667 00:35:03,867 --> 00:35:06,100 SOMETHING LIKE 200 DINAR. 668 00:35:06,133 --> 00:35:08,067 SO, THAT'S ABOUT 200 POUNDS IN OUR MONEY? 669 00:35:08,100 --> 00:35:09,167 YEAH, YEAH. 670 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:11,333 BUT MAYBE TO A BIG AMERICAN COLLECTOR, 671 00:35:11,367 --> 00:35:12,776 IT WOULD BE WORTH THOUSANDS OF POUNDS. 672 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:13,833 EXACTLY. WOW. 673 00:35:13,867 --> 00:35:14,833 OKAY. 674 00:35:14,867 --> 00:35:17,600 AND THIS CAME UP FROM PETRA? 675 00:35:17,633 --> 00:35:19,633 YEAH, THIS IS WHAT WE FOUND IN THE TRACK. 676 00:35:19,667 --> 00:35:22,600 THIS IS EXACTLY... WE FIND THAT ONE OF THE TOMBS, 677 00:35:22,633 --> 00:35:25,200 BUT IT WAS FULL OF WATER, YOU KNOW, MANY WATER. 678 00:35:25,233 --> 00:35:27,433 AND THIS WAS YOU FIND AT ONE OF THE TOMB IN THERE. 679 00:35:27,467 --> 00:35:30,133 SO, IF THE GOVERNMENT KNEW THAT YOU HAD THIS, 680 00:35:30,167 --> 00:35:31,900 WOULD THEY TAKE IT AWAY FROM YOU? 681 00:35:31,933 --> 00:35:33,066 WOULD YOU BE IN TROUBLE? OH, THEY WOULD TAKE IT AWAY. 682 00:35:33,067 --> 00:35:34,067 NOW, WOULD THEY? WE MAKE TROUBLE. 683 00:35:34,068 --> 00:35:35,833 YOU WOULD GO TO JAIL 684 00:35:35,867 --> 00:35:37,543 IF THEY CAME AND THEY FOUND THIS IN YOUR HOUSE? 685 00:35:37,567 --> 00:35:39,167 OH, YES. RIGHT, OKAY. 686 00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:40,800 OKAY, RIGHT. OKAY. 687 00:35:40,833 --> 00:35:43,533 THAT'S AMAZING. THANK YOU. 688 00:35:47,133 --> 00:35:49,867 Fanthorpe: THEY LIVE IN HOPES THAT THEY'LL FIND PERHAPS 689 00:35:49,900 --> 00:35:52,200 THE LOST TREASURE OF PHARAOH 690 00:35:52,233 --> 00:35:55,367 OR SOME RICHES THAT WERE LEFT THERE 691 00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:59,800 WHEN IT WAS PART OF BALDWIN'S KINGDOM OF THE HOLY LAND, 692 00:35:59,833 --> 00:36:02,433 AND I, FOR ONE, 693 00:36:02,467 --> 00:36:06,500 WOULD BE INCLINED TO TRUST THE BEDOUIN KNOWLEDGE 694 00:36:06,533 --> 00:36:11,767 OF THE AREA AND TO SAY, "YES, THAT'S PRETTY GOOD EVIDENCE 695 00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:18,167 THAT THERE IS A SUBSTANTIAL TREASURE WAITING TO BE FOUND." 696 00:36:23,133 --> 00:36:26,167 Narrator: AFTER A FEW HOURS OF CHATTING AWAY OVER TEA, 697 00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:28,667 THE LOCAL BEDOUINS FELT COMFORTABLE ENOUGH 698 00:36:28,700 --> 00:36:30,833 WITH JAMIE AND THE CREW TO INVITE THEM 699 00:36:30,867 --> 00:36:33,433 ON ONE OF THEIR SCAVENGING TRIPS INTO THE DESERT 700 00:36:33,467 --> 00:36:36,933 TO SEE WHAT, IF ANYTHING, THEY'D FIND. 701 00:36:39,467 --> 00:36:42,767 MANY OF THE LOCAL BEDOUIN FAMILIES SEND SMALL PARTIES 702 00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:48,433 OUT INTO THE DESERT AFTER DARK TO SEE WHAT CAN BE DUG UP. 703 00:36:48,467 --> 00:36:50,867 MOST OF THE DISCOVERIES ARE JUST COINS, 704 00:36:50,900 --> 00:36:53,867 SHARDS OF POTTERY, AND OTHER LOW-VALUE ITEMS, 705 00:36:53,900 --> 00:36:56,066 WHICH THEY SELL ON TO TOURISTS, 706 00:36:56,067 --> 00:37:00,733 BUT OCCASIONALLY, SOMETHING MORE SIGNIFICANT DOES COME UP. 707 00:37:00,767 --> 00:37:03,800 [ CONVERSING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE ] 708 00:37:06,467 --> 00:37:08,433 THE GUY'S SAYING THAT THEY NEED TO KEEP THE... 709 00:37:08,467 --> 00:37:10,433 THEY NEED TO KEEP THE RADIO NOISE DOWN 710 00:37:10,467 --> 00:37:12,833 BECAUSE THEY'RE WORRIED THE GUARDS MIGHT HEAR. 711 00:37:23,300 --> 00:37:25,267 Narrator: ONCE THEY ARRIVED ON SITE, 712 00:37:25,300 --> 00:37:28,200 JAMIE AND THE CREW WERE GIVEN A QUICK SECURITY BRIEFING. 713 00:37:28,233 --> 00:37:31,066 THE BEDOUINS DON'T WANT TO GET CAUGHT OUT HERE, 714 00:37:31,067 --> 00:37:32,433 SO THEY POST LOOKOUTS. 715 00:37:32,467 --> 00:37:35,100 AND IF AN UNIDENTIFIED VEHICLE APPROACHED, 716 00:37:35,133 --> 00:37:39,133 IT WOULD BE TIME TO LEAVE... FAST. 717 00:37:39,167 --> 00:37:42,333 [ CONVERSING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE ] 718 00:37:56,067 --> 00:37:57,800 OKAY. 719 00:37:57,833 --> 00:38:01,267 SO, HOW WILL WE KNOW IF THEY'VE SEEN US DIGGING? 720 00:38:12,500 --> 00:38:15,633 WHAT HAPPENS ON THIS NIGHTTIME ADVENTURE? 721 00:38:15,667 --> 00:38:18,833 WHAT RELICS ARE UNEARTHED IN THIS ANCIENT PLACE? 722 00:38:18,867 --> 00:38:22,533 AND WHAT HAPPENS IF THEY ARE DISCOVERED? 723 00:38:22,567 --> 00:38:26,233 THE DRAMATIC CONCLUSION WHEN "FORBIDDEN HISTORY" RETURNS. 724 00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:35,500 Narrator: JOURNALIST JAMIE THEAKSTON IS ON A MISSION 725 00:38:35,533 --> 00:38:38,467 TO FIND THE LOST TREASURES OF THE CITY OF PETRA IN JORDAN, 726 00:38:38,500 --> 00:38:41,700 SAID TO HAVE BEEN LEFT BEHIND BY ITS PREVIOUS INHABITANTS. 727 00:38:41,733 --> 00:38:42,933 ON THE FACE OF IT, 728 00:38:42,967 --> 00:38:45,700 THE SITE ITSELF WAS AN ANCIENT GHOST TOWN, 729 00:38:45,733 --> 00:38:48,900 FULL OF EMPTY ROCK-CUT TOMBS AND CAVES. 730 00:38:48,933 --> 00:38:52,967 WHATEVER GREAT TREASURES IT HAD HAD LONG BEEN TAKEN ELSEWHERE 731 00:38:53,067 --> 00:38:56,233 OR REMAINED BURIED UNDER TONS OF SAND AND ROCKS, 732 00:38:56,267 --> 00:38:59,100 BUT WHAT HE DISCOVERED WHEN HE SCRATCHED THE SURFACE 733 00:38:59,133 --> 00:39:00,600 WAS A REVELATION... 734 00:39:00,633 --> 00:39:04,700 A SECRET UNDERGROUND TRADE IN RELICS BY THE LOCAL BEDOUINS 735 00:39:04,733 --> 00:39:06,767 THAT WAS STILL GOING ON TODAY. 736 00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:09,700 HE MET WITH A GROUP WHO REGULARLY WENT INTO THE DESERT 737 00:39:09,733 --> 00:39:11,633 TO SCAVENGE FOR TREASURES, 738 00:39:11,667 --> 00:39:14,700 AND THEY HAD AGREED TO LET HIM TAG ALONG. 739 00:39:14,733 --> 00:39:16,667 Cox: THERE WILL BE CACHES OF RELICS. 740 00:39:16,700 --> 00:39:19,267 THERE WILL BE GRAVES, THERE'LL BE TOMBS. 741 00:39:19,300 --> 00:39:21,533 WE FOUND, I THINK, A DROP IN THE OCEAN 742 00:39:21,567 --> 00:39:24,200 OF WHAT'S TO BE FOUND NEAR PETRA. 743 00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:32,433 [ CONVERSING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE ] 744 00:39:36,267 --> 00:39:39,667 Narrator: JAMIE IS TAKEN TO AN AREA ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF PETRA 745 00:39:39,700 --> 00:39:43,067 THAT THE BEDOUINS HAVE BEEN WORKING ON FOR SOME TIME. 746 00:39:43,100 --> 00:39:46,400 THEY SAID IT WAS PART OF AN ORIGINAL NABATAEAN SETTLEMENT, 747 00:39:46,433 --> 00:39:49,933 WHICH HAD ALREADY YIELDED UP SOME SMALL ARTIFACTS. 748 00:39:49,967 --> 00:39:52,867 ALTHOUGH THE INFRARED IMAGES LOOK QUITE LIGHT, 749 00:39:52,900 --> 00:39:56,067 THEY WERE ACTUALLY WORKING IN NEAR DARKNESS. 750 00:39:57,867 --> 00:39:59,633 HOW GOOD IS THE PLACE? OKAY. 751 00:39:59,667 --> 00:40:01,933 THIS IS A BIG MARK SO YOU KNOW WHERE TO DIG? 752 00:40:01,967 --> 00:40:02,967 YEAH. 753 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:04,767 THESE TWO, YOU CAN SEE HOW IT'S... 754 00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:06,600 OH, OKAY. 755 00:40:06,633 --> 00:40:08,567 WE DIG IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TWO. 756 00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,567 OKAY. YEAH. 757 00:40:13,167 --> 00:40:14,900 MM. 758 00:40:24,867 --> 00:40:27,033 SO, WHAT KIND OF THING ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? 759 00:40:27,067 --> 00:40:32,433 WE LOOK, LIKE, JARS, KNIVES, SOMETHING LIKE THESE LITTLE... 760 00:40:32,467 --> 00:40:33,667 OKAY. 761 00:40:33,700 --> 00:40:34,700 OH, DON'T STOP. 762 00:40:34,733 --> 00:40:36,900 [ CONVERSING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE ] 763 00:40:41,100 --> 00:40:43,600 Butler: IT HAS OFTEN BEEN SAID 764 00:40:43,633 --> 00:40:47,600 THAT PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS LOOKED FOR TREASURE IN PETRA, 765 00:40:47,633 --> 00:40:50,800 AND I THINK THEY CERTAINLY HAVE. 766 00:40:50,833 --> 00:40:53,533 AND OF COURSE, AT TIMES, REPORTS HAVE BEEN MADE 767 00:40:53,567 --> 00:40:55,267 THAT TREASURE WAS FOUND THERE. 768 00:40:55,300 --> 00:40:58,967 REPUTEDLY, ACCORDING TO ARAB WRITERS, 769 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:03,467 THE CRUSADERS FOUND TREASURE THERE IN THE 1180s, 770 00:41:03,500 --> 00:41:07,200 TREASURE THAT WAS RELATED TO THE DISTANT HEBREW PAST. 771 00:41:07,233 --> 00:41:10,967 WHETHER THIS IS TRUE OR NOT, IT'S HARD TO SAY. 772 00:41:11,067 --> 00:41:13,733 IT'S LIKE 2,000 YEARS HERE. 773 00:41:13,767 --> 00:41:16,066 Narrator: AFTER ABOUT AN HOUR OF DIGGING, 774 00:41:16,067 --> 00:41:18,833 THE BEDOUINS DISCOVER A SMALL OBJECT. 775 00:41:18,867 --> 00:41:22,167 IT WAS AN OIL LAMP, ALMOST IDENTICAL TO THE ONES 776 00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:25,767 JAMIE WAS SHOWN IN AMMAN AND ONE OF THE MOST COMMON ARTIFACTS 777 00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:28,533 THAT'S EXCAVATED IN PETRA. 778 00:41:28,567 --> 00:41:30,066 CAN I HAVE A... CAN I HAVE A LOOK? 779 00:41:30,067 --> 00:41:31,567 CAN I TOUCH IT? 780 00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:33,467 BE CAREFUL. 781 00:41:33,500 --> 00:41:34,700 BUT TO THE BEDOUINS, 782 00:41:34,733 --> 00:41:37,667 IT'S NOT SIGNIFICANT AND NOT VALUABLE. 783 00:41:37,700 --> 00:41:41,333 DESPITE POSSIBLY BEING OVER 2,000 YEARS OLD, 784 00:41:41,367 --> 00:41:47,667 IT WOULD ONLY FETCH AROUND $10 IF THEY SOLD IT TO A DEALER. 785 00:41:48,867 --> 00:41:52,267 THE SUN WOULD BE COMING UP SOON, 786 00:41:52,300 --> 00:41:54,500 AND THE TEAM DIDN'T WANT TO OUTSTAY THEIR WELCOME. 787 00:41:54,533 --> 00:41:56,700 SO IT WAS TIME TO GO. 788 00:41:56,733 --> 00:41:59,067 THEY MIGHT NOT HAVE FOUND ANYTHING SIGNIFICANT, 789 00:41:59,100 --> 00:42:02,200 BUT AS THE DISCOVERY OF THE OIL LAMP PROVED, 790 00:42:02,233 --> 00:42:04,833 THIS ANCIENT PLACE STILL HAS MANY RELICS 791 00:42:04,867 --> 00:42:06,900 AND SECRETS TO GIVE UP. 792 00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:15,933 Prince: THINGS ARE FOUND REGULARLY AT PETRA, 793 00:42:15,967 --> 00:42:17,967 ON A SMALL SCALE OR LARGE SCALE. 794 00:42:18,067 --> 00:42:21,167 ALL OF IT'S SOLD BY THE LOCALS. 795 00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:22,500 THE BIGGER STUFF 796 00:42:22,533 --> 00:42:25,100 GOES INTO THE INTERNATIONAL ANTIQUITIES TRADE. 797 00:42:25,133 --> 00:42:27,867 BUT, YES, THERE ARE THINGS BEING FOUND ALL THE TIME, 798 00:42:27,900 --> 00:42:30,900 AND, YOU KNOW, THERE'S OBVIOUSLY A LOT MORE TO BE FOUND. 799 00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:36,200 Cox: IF IT'S ONLY 35% EXCAVATED, WHAT ELSE IS TO BE FOUND? 800 00:42:36,233 --> 00:42:39,333 AND WITH THOSE FINDS, THERE WILL BE, YOU KNOW, 801 00:42:39,367 --> 00:42:41,533 THERE WILL BE CACHES OF RELICS. 802 00:42:41,567 --> 00:42:44,533 THERE WILL BE GRAVES, THERE'LL BE TOMBS. 803 00:42:44,567 --> 00:42:47,600 WE'VE FOUND, I THINK, A DROP IN THE OCEAN 804 00:42:47,633 --> 00:42:49,967 OF WHAT'S TO BE FOUND HERE IN PLACES LIKE PETRA 805 00:42:50,067 --> 00:42:51,833 AND OTHER GREAT SITES. 806 00:42:56,167 --> 00:43:00,067 Fanthorpe: ONE OF THE REASONS WHY IT SEEMS LIKELY 807 00:43:00,100 --> 00:43:05,633 THAT BEFORE LONG, SOME VAST TREASURE MAY BE UNCOVERED 808 00:43:05,667 --> 00:43:08,133 IS THIS TRICKLE OF RELICS. 809 00:43:08,167 --> 00:43:11,733 IT'S PERSISTENT, IT GOES ON. 810 00:43:11,767 --> 00:43:15,066 IF THERE WAS NOTHING COMING UP IN THE SAND, 811 00:43:15,067 --> 00:43:18,533 THEN WE CAN SAY, "OKAY, IT'S JUST AN ANCIENT CITY. 812 00:43:18,567 --> 00:43:20,767 IT'S OBSOLETE. IT'S GONE." 813 00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:23,533 BUT WHEN THESE INTERESTING DISCOVERIES 814 00:43:23,567 --> 00:43:26,900 ARE MADE SO REGULARLY, 815 00:43:26,933 --> 00:43:29,467 IT DOES GIVE GROUNDS TO HOPE 816 00:43:29,500 --> 00:43:32,967 THAT THERE IS SOMETHING MUCH BIGGER, 817 00:43:33,067 --> 00:43:37,400 MUCH MORE VALUABLE JUST WAITING TO BE UNEARTHED. 818 00:43:37,433 --> 00:43:41,133 IT'S A JUG TODAY, BUT AT THE END OF THE YEAR, 819 00:43:41,167 --> 00:43:44,667 THERE MAY BE A JUG FULL OF GOLD PIECES. 820 00:43:54,633 --> 00:43:57,067 Narrator: PETRA IS A MAGNIFICENT RUIN 821 00:43:57,100 --> 00:43:59,233 THAT'S BEEN STANDING PROUDLY IN THE DESERT 822 00:43:59,267 --> 00:44:02,300 FOR OVER 2,500 YEARS. 823 00:44:02,333 --> 00:44:04,700 BUT THERE IS A SECRET SIDE... 824 00:44:04,733 --> 00:44:07,066 A RELENTLESS, EVEN RUTHLESS, SEARCH 825 00:44:07,067 --> 00:44:09,066 BY RELIC HUNTERS AND DEALERS 826 00:44:09,067 --> 00:44:12,767 FOR WHATEVER'S BEEN BURIED THERE OVER THE CENTURIES. 827 00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:14,967 THE $6 MILLION QUESTION IS 828 00:44:15,067 --> 00:44:19,700 WHAT, IF ANYTHING, IS STILL LEFT? 829 00:44:19,733 --> 00:44:22,400 BEARING IN MIND THAT ONLY 15% OF THE WHOLE SITE 830 00:44:22,433 --> 00:44:27,400 HAS EVER BEEN EXCAVATED, THE LIKELIHOOD IS QUITE A LOT. 64588

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