“The walls tower above us from 400 to 600 feet; at times almost shutting out the sky. As we take each step we wonder what we are going to see next. After wandering through this defile for over an hour we suddenly come around the last turn and stood breathless and speechless — for directly in front of us is one of the most amazing sights in the world, a rose-red temple carved out of solid rock, away out there in the desert scores of miles from any sign of human habitation, more striking than the Parthenon at Athens or the Coliseum at Rome.”
-Lowell Thomas
“With Lawrence in Arabia” (1919)
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