Of the 500 tombs in Petra, the Royal Tombs are perhaps the most impressive.

The largest amongst them' the Urn Tomb, easiIy competes with AI Khazneh and Al Deir (the Monastery) in size. Thought to have been carved around 70 AD, the main chamber, 17m x 18.9m in size, was altered in the mid-fifth century and used as a Byzantine church.

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