PETRA, Jordan, March 13, 2023. Tourists crowded along the giant stone corridor in front of Al-Khazneh, one of the tombs carved into the rocky mountains of the former Nabataean Kingdom. A sea of people from various nations, as far as the eye could see, crept slowly forward. Their hands raised above their heads, phone cameras recording.

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