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The block graves are on the side of the road towards as, just 500 meters from the main entrance. This area is also called Bab Al Siq, i.e. the gate to the Siq. Presumably the graves are in the 2nd or 3rd century BC. And are among the oldest buildings in the Rock city Petra Jordan. Bedouins believed that ghosts dwelt in the stone blocks. That is why the name Djinn Blocks came about. The Arabic name as-Sahrij means cistern. This suggests that the recesses in the roof of some blocks were used as water collecting tanks. Opposite the block graves are rocky hills with old burial caves from the 1st century BC. To see.
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