The Petra Complex

Movies like Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade have made Petra's ruins more well-known. Petra was built in a seismic zone and abandoned in the sixth century, making it vulnerable to destruction from earthquakes and floods. At the end of the 20th century, the site was also under serious threat from the ongoing flood of tourists.

Petra was placed on the World Monuments Fund's Watch List in the 1990s in an effort to address its problems with tourism management. A long-term site plan was created in collaboration by the WMF, the Jordanian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, and the Petra National Trust. The beautiful Great Temple, several of the columns, the entrance gorge, the Byzantine Church, as well as the reconstruction of the site's antiquity water systems, were all restored in addition to other research and projects.

• Country: Jordan