By the time Dr. Richard Bates swept his radar device over the sandstone of Petra’s ancient Treasury building, it had been more than two decades since anyone had so deeply probed the stone city’s grounds.

The Treasury in Petra, Jordan, is a famous tourist site and features in an Indiana Jones movie. Now archaeologists say they've found a remarkable 12 complete skeletons in a hidden tomb beneath it.

Researchers have unearthed a secret tomb beneath Petra’s pink stone cliffs that could answer longstanding questions about the ancient Nabatean people. Surrounded by mountains, the historic Jordanian city gained notoriety when the Treasury—a mysterious hand-carved rock structure sometimes called Al Khazneh—was featured in Indiana Jones and the Last