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Owen Jarus

2,000-year-old tomb holding 12 skeletons found at Petra where 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade' was filmed

Three men in cowboy hats in front of a grand building with columns use shovels to excavate a site.

Archaeologists have discovered a 2,000-year-old tomb containing 12 skeletons beneath the "Treasury" in the ancient city of Petra in Jordan.

In Arabic, the Treasury is known as "Al-Khazneh," which translates to "the treasury of the pharaoh." The exact purpose of the Treasury is unclear, but it may have been a mausoleum for the Nabataean king Aretas IV Philopatris. Film buffs may remember it as the site where the "Holy Grail" — the cup that Jesus is said to have used during the Last Supper — was found in the 1989 movie "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade."

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