Petra’s heyday ended when the Romans rerouted trade in the second century A.D., sending the city into a long decline. In a fifth-century Byzantine church archaeologists found detailed mosaics.
—From “Petra: Ancient City of Stone,” December 1998, National Geographic magazine
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