PETRA was the MOST AWESOME PLACE I HAVE EVER SEEN THAT WASN’T RELIGIOUS!
It’s kind of a fun show, but often Josh Gates ends up digging in the dirt in a staged ‘discovery’ of some artifact that was planted there by the archeologists who really discovered them and planted them there for the show. Gates would always get all bugged eyed and excited and shout with excitement at finding some coin, triket or relic.
But in this case, it sounds like they really found something significant on their own. I hope Josh doesn’t have an aneurysm on camera.
I’ve read in the last year or so that Petra was the original Mecca since Muhhamid was from that area and member of that tribe. As well the early mosques pointed to the Petra area.
Some guy looked at the rock face and imagined that.