The Late Petra Project: an Archaeological Study of Settlement in Post-Urban Petra
Before the start of this project, a commonly held notion was that the Petra valley had been more or less abandoned for the whole Islamic period apart from a short parenthesis during the Crusader period, when the Franks were responsible for an important urban revival of the region (Hammond 1970, 39 followed by Vannini & Vanni Desideri 1995, 513; 515; 538). For this reason, it had...