in all ofjordan but having all of these people here can bring problems. the delicate rocks are easily damaged by tourists touching the monuments or walking off the designated trails, especially in places where excavations are under way. but now, there s a project aimed at getting tourists themselves involved with the conservation of the monuments, to help protect one of the most threatened sites in the whole of petra. this is the temple of winged lions, a religious complex built in around 27 ad. i m liking your office, glenn. i like what you ve done with it. no, this is a beautiful place. this is. voice over: glenn is in charge of the site, and tells me how the problems here started in the 1970s, when the temple was first excavated.
excavations are under way. but now, there s a project aimed at getting tourists themselves involved with the conservation of the monuments, to help protect one of the most threatened sites in the whole of petra. this is the temple of winged lions, a religious complex built in around 27 ad. i m liking your office, glenn. i like what you ve done with it. no, this is a beautiful place. this is. v0|ce 0ver: glenn is in charge of the site, and tells me how the problems here started in the 1970s, when the temple was first excavated. they uncovered this cool monument, but didn t do a wonderfuljob of doing the things necessary to preserve it for future generations. whenever you excavate a monument, you have to pull a lot of the earth out
the delicate rocks are easily damaged by tourists touching the monuments or walking off the designated trails, especially in places where excavations are under way. but now, there s a project aimed at getting tourists themselves involved with the conservation of the monuments, to help protect one of the most threatened sites in the whole of petra. this is the temple of winged lions, a religious complex built in around 27 ad. i m liking your office, glenn. i like what you ve done with it. no, this is a beautiful place. this is. glenn is in charge of the site and tells me how the problems here started in the 1970s, when the temple was first excavated. they uncovered this cool monument, but didn t do a wonderfuljob
excavations are under way. but now, there s a project aimed at getting tourists themselves involved with the conservation of the monuments, to help protect one of the most threatened sites in the whole of petra. this is the temple of winged lions, a religious complex built in around 27 ad. i m liking your office, glenn. i like what you ve done with it. no, this is a beautiful place. this is. v0|ce 0ver: glenn is in charge of the site, and tells me how the problems here started in the 1970s, when the temple was first excavated. they uncovered this cool monument, but didn t do a wonderfuljob of doing the things necessary to preserve it for future generations. whenever you excavate a monument, you have to pull a lot of the earth out of the ground in order to reveal it.
in the whole of petra. this is the temple of winged lions, a religious complex built in around 27 ad. i m liking your office, glenn. i like what you ve done with it. no, this is a beautiful place. this is. glenn is in charge of the site and tells me how the problems here started in the 1970s, when the temple was first excavated. they uncovered this cool monument, but didn t do a wonderfuljob of doing the things necessary to preserve it for future generations. whenever you excavate a monument, you have to pull a lot of the earth out of the ground in order to reveal it. and so this earlier project dumped a lot of that earth. and so, as you ll see, we re trying to re excavate those earlier archaeological dumps. the dumps are huge mounds