Exploratory pedestrian survey of the Petra city center assessing the ancient traffic flows between the Upper Market Area and the domestic quarters of ez-Zantur.

The excavation continued a preliminary excavation conducted by Christopher A. Tuttle in 2009 and revealed systems of water management and the phases of its abandonment.

The PUMA project webpage is hosted on the Brown University Petra Archaeological Project (BUPAP) website and provides an overview of the project aims. It also details the...

The survey employed electromagnetic induction (EM), ground-penetrating radar (GPR), magnetic gradiometry, and surface mapping (topo).