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PETRA’S TREASURY. Al-Khazneh, the Treasury, at Petra is one of the most iconic archaeological monuments in the world. Many scholars now presume this structure, carved into the sandstone cliff, was the tomb or mausoleum of the Nabatean king Aretas IV (r. 9 B.C.–40 A.D).