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Cultural Site Research and Management and the University of Arkansas Department of Geosciences began a project more than 25 years ago to understand the accumulating effects of nature and foot traffic in the ancient city of Petra, Jordan, a stone city famously used as a backdrop in the movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. GIS was used to create a database and model for use in archaeological research and land management and is currently used to automatically monitor and detect changes in the condition of historical sites in Petra. Read more about the project, “Cultural Heritage Management and GIS in Petra, Jordan,” at www.esri.com/news/arcnews/summer12articles/cultural-heritage-management-and-gis-in-petra-jordan.html.

Figure 1.1. Ad-Deir (the Monastery) high above the valley—one of the largest hewn structures in Petra. Photo courtesy of Thomas Paradise.Figure 1.2. Oblique view of Petra. Blue lines represent ephemeral watercourses (wadis), and red cubes represent GPS markers at primary tomb facades. The map was created by Christopher C. Angel in ArcGIS (2012).