Walking the ancient street petra Colonnaded st to Byzantine Church VR U

Описание: Walking the ancient street. Petra
Colonnaded st to Byzantine Church
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The Colonnaded Street
The street represents an original Nabataean creation,later refurbished during the period of Roman occupation. It would have been one of the principal shopping streets of ancient Petra.The street was rebuilt in 106 BC with a width of 6 meters.
The excavation fossil indicates that there was an older road with 1-2 floor building, lying on its side. On the left of the portico street to the south, there is a set of stairs that leads to the courtyard, which is called the market. This is believed to have been the heart of the city and center of various types of commercial activities and transactions during the third century BC. The street continued to be used throughout the Byzantine period during the fourth and fifth centuries, until the sixth. 
At the end of the road lies the triple gate, which leads to the Temple of Qasr Al-Bint. The street was paved in horizontal and vertical ways in order to facilitate the movement of vehicles as it curved from the middle to allow the draining of water, which is equipped with a network of channels under the street level. The main tripartite gate led to the sacred courtyard known as the Temple of Qasr Al-Bint. Ahead of the entrance to the Gate, there lies a set of stairs that leads to the Temple, and on the other side lies the Black Winged Temple, which is dedicated to the God of Lat and Uzza, who is the mate of the major Nabataean gods.
At the beginning of the colonnaded street The Nymphaeum will be at the right side, which is a semi-circular public fountain near the junction of Wadi Musa and Wadi al-Mataha. six Nabataean columns decorated the facade, It received water from a tank on the opposite side of the valley. Now it is shaded by a juniper tree that is 450 years old.
Byzantine-church
The triple basilica, measuring about 26 by 15 meters, with three apses to the east and three entrances to the west, and accessed from a stone-paved atrium, was built starting in 450 AD in several phases, using stones from Nabataean and Roman buildings that had been destroyed by the 363 AD earthquake. Around the year 600, the basilica burned down, and was hit later by several earthquakes, burying the floor mosaics which saved them from iconoclast destruction.
The mosaics, covering 70 m2 on each of the side aisles of the church, are dated stylistically to the early 6th century, and depict everyday objects, exotic and mythological animals, as well as personifications of the Seasons, the Ocean, the Earth and Wisdom. Remains of the nave's pavement, with marble and stone geometric designs, and a 5th century Baptistery are also preserved.