The Disguise That Rediscovered a Lost City

Added: 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]For nearly a thousand years, only the local Bedouin people knew it existed.

[00:00:04][music] The outside world rediscovered Petra in 1812 [music] when a Swiss explorer named Johann Ludwig Burckhardt disguised himself as a Muslim pilgrim to gain access.

[00:00:17]A city that had hidden from the world for a thousand years found again by one man willing to pretend to be someone else.