Monday 14 October 2013

"XYZ"

Mankind under the vast and endless multi shaded sky is undisputed creature of ALLAH sovereignty. Necessity is the mother of invention. Form inception to until yet and from yet to until end The Dooms Day men is creating, discovering and inventing things as their accord. Let me tell you undisputed invention made by men is the wheel. Yes I am not in gaming mode and you are not day dreaming. There is not any machine in which wheel is being used no matter it might be a simple Rolls Royce or B12 fighter jet or Allure of the seas or L Zero Maglev (train) .


For survival humans are using clothes plus food from very beginning. What do you thing? The clothes and the food were magically discovered or produced if your answer is positive then you better go sleep and take rest and then come back and if your answer is negative then you are on right way. As I early said necessity is the mother of invention means if you need something go and produce that thing by self and if you are just like me then don’t be shy to spend your rupees. Let me show you simple example of “necessity is the mother of invention”.


Now a days shelter is one of the basic need for mankind to survive on the surface of this polluted and heaven type hell earth. For this purpose humans tend to build their houses and in generally and roughly, collection of houses can be termed as a colony or even city. Dear beautiful  and innocent girls, romantic and responsible ladies and descent and sincere gentlemen and dashing as well as smart boys please allow me to ask you a very simple question, question is tell me either you can guess the topic of today’s article or not? Thereby on the behalf of this question I mentioned the topic of my article as XYZ. Don’t be shy to post your descent and formal answers of my question below in comment box.


Ups and downs are the nature of this life. No one can deny from this acrid reality. Once you open your eyes in the lap of your mother and breathe in the smelled air of (often) hospital. Now your mother use to call you a little baby girl or baby boy. 


After gradually increment in your age your status is being changed from little baby to baby then boy after that, men and then the old men and what happens to old men the aged persons? Quite obvious you will be a cadaver, a dead body after death and I am sure you are on my side having same thoughts.
















The thing I am on writing today is one of the new wonders of the world; tell me again did you got the right answer? Okay leave that brainstorming and let me answer. The answer is City of Petra Jordan. City of Petra is one of the latest 7 wonders of the world. The whole city was built in the result of carving, chisel and shaping the mountains and the hills in desert of Jordan by mankind.There are many beautiful and marvellous murals as well as designs on the floor, on the walls, on the main entrance, the gate. Take a look of main entrance of the City of Petra.


From now to onward I will endeavour to describe each and every aspect of Petra City from every angle. Without any doubt it is one of the most antique treasures of Jordan. Now a day The City of Petra is being consider the hub of ancient architecture and attracts tourists all over the world. Marvellous collection of stone sculptures and reliefs, ceramics, metalwork, artwork, in various media and other priceless artefacts.


Meaning of Petra is “Rock”. Arab tribe Nabataea’s carved this city into mountains as well as cliffs several centuries befor Christ’s birth and currently it is one of the new 7 wonders of the world. Petra was rediscovered in 1812 by a Swedish explorer name Hohan Ludwing Burckhardt during his expedition. It’s all about its history.


Now let me tell you a little bit about location of Petra City. Petra is lies about 3-5 hours south of modern Amman capital of Jordan and about 2 hours north of Aqaba on the edges of mountainous desert of Wadi Araba. The city is surrounded by towering hills of rust coloured sandstone. Area is totally semiarid thereby it allowed the Nabataeans to carve their temples and tombs into the rock crumbling easily to sand. 


As far as concern of mine I like the colours of rocks some are yellow pale and many of them are of royal reds as well as brown just like wood.  Rust colour stratums make the cliffs eye catching and attractive. 


The Siq

As often all houses or colonies or even cities tend to have a main entrance usually called main entrance or main gate. Same case is with Petra City, from the official main entrance of ancient city of Petra called The Siq. Giant passageway having some points of 3 meter wide.  Actually  Nabataeans were expert in hydraulic engineers. The walls of the Siq are lined with channels to carry drinking water to the city when a dam, just right of the entrance diverted an adjoining stream through a tunnel to prevent it flooding the Siq. As you enter in Siq the walls tower up hundreds of meters on either sides.


The Khazneh  

The name Khazneh comes from the legend that it was used as a hiding place for treasure. Literally meaning of Khazneh is “The Treasury”. Al Khazneh is one of the most elaborate temples in the ancient city of Petra. Best known of monuments at Petra, the Khazneh is also the first to greet the visitors arriving via the Siq. Walls on both sides of gorge are 40 m high.


Hub of Petra 

All human beings have different thoughts, view and different approaches to analysing situations. My view is hub of human body is its mind(brain) but perhaps many of you or might be some of you will disagree with this statement because they you are considering most valuable part of human body is it’s heart. In the case of Petra city its mind(hub) lies about the open ground of the Wadi Musa. Vast pathway leads to the open main street of Roman Petra.


Sophisticated and descent comments will be appreciated.

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