Redigerer Petra (Jordan) (avsnitt)

== I litteraturen og populærkulturen ==
Petra er hovedemne i [[John William Burgon]]s [[sonett]] Petra som vant den britiske Newdigate-prisen i 1945. Diktet refererer til Petra som den utilgjengelige byen Burgon hadde hørt om, men aldri sett:

{{sitat|''It seems no work of Man's creative hand,''<br />
:''by labour wrought as wavering fancy planned;''
''But from the rock as if by magic grown,''<br />
:''eternal, silent, beautiful, alone!''
''Not virgin-white like that old Doric shrine,''<br />
:''where erst [[Athena]] held her rites divine;''
''Not saintly-grey, like many a minster fane,''<br />
:''that crowns the hill and consecrates the plain;''
''But rose-red as if the blush of dawn,''<br />
:''that first beheld them were not yet withdrawn;''
''The hues of youth upon a brow of woe,''<br />
:''which Man deemed old two thousand years ago,''
''Match me such marvel save in Eastern clime,''<br />
:''a rose-red city half as old as time.''}}

[[Herman Melville]] sammenlignet [[Wall Street]] på en søndagsmorgen med den forlatte byen Petra i sin novelle ''Bartleby, the Scrivener'' (1953).

Byen ble brukt som kulisse i den amerikanske spillefilmen ''[[Indiana Jones og det siste korstog]]'' (1989).