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Eight thousand years before the first barrel, the Gulf had already built a global economy — out of an oyster, a held breath, and a rope.
Before oil, the Arabian Gulf ran on the pearl: a global luxury trade that raised its cities from the sand, drew fortunes and real suffering in equal measure, and then vanished almost overnight. The story of the industry that made the modern Gulf — and the quiet way it is coming back.
The 1989 film gave Petra a façade and invented everything behind it. The real story is in the water systems, the aniconic sculpture, the painter who framed your photograph in 1839 and the families moved out so the world could come in.
Spielberg's crew filmed the Treasury's façade in Jordan, then built the Grail chamber on a soundstage in Hertfordshire — because the real interior of Al-Khazneh is a plain, undecorated room. It's a perfect miniature of how Petra is understood: one wall, photographed a million times a year, standing in for a city that is mostly still unexcavated.
What the world's most famous building stunt tells you about everything it was filmed on
A film crew drilled into the world's tallest building to hang a man off the side of it. Behind that decision sits wind physics, a hundred-year-old cooling technology, a height race Dubai has quietly stepped away from, and an art scene older than the tower.
An insider's directory to navigating the capital's changing creative spaces, from transformed industrial warehouses to central gallery hubs.
Riyadh's contemporary art scene is expanding at an extraordinary pace. Discover the city's essential creative hubs, from the monumental converted warehouses of the JAX District to the bustling commercial galleries of Al Olaya, with Exhibo's comprehensive cultural guide.
Record-breaking sales at Sotheby's and Christie's tell only half the story of a market increasingly split between top-tier auctions and struggling dealerships.
A string of impressive auction results in New York and London has fuelled optimism among market commentators, but the picture for galleries and emerging artists remains far bleaker.
Cultural relocation meets commercial pressure in the capital's historic financial district
As the Museum of London prepares to relocate, tensions mount between commercial expansion and heritage preservation across the capital's historic financial district.
