Many movie lovers know the ancient city of Petra in Jordan because one of is temples is in the third Indiana Jones movie .The city of Petra is more than 2,500 years old .The people of Petra out many of the city s buildings into the red rock of the mountains in the area. Petra was an important center in the area for centuries. But the city s best years were almost at an end when the Romans arrived in the area. for centuries nobody lived there and nobody outside the area knew about the city .