"Petra. Oleanders in bloom with figure."
Image: Library of Congress
Built sometime around the 4th century BC, the city of Petra in southern Jordan was the capital of the Nabataean society.
The Nabataeans carved elaborate and beautiful structures directly out of the raw sandstone cliffs, and devised ingenious cisterns and water conduits to make the city both a fortress and an oasis along the caravan trade routes of the region.
These images of Petra and its environs were created using the Autochrome process, one of the earliest color photography technologies. Requiring long exposures, the process used dyed potato starch grains to capture color in a dreamy, pointillist mosaic. Read more...
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