Jordan’s ancient city of Petra is the focus of La Sierra University’s 16th annual Archaeology Discovery Weekend, with programs scheduled Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 16 and 17. Programs will include illustrated presentations, also accessible online, by international scholars from around the United States and Jordan. On Sunday, the event will also offer refreshments in a Bedouin tent, a simulated Kids’ Dig and family-friendly lab activities such as 3D tours of Petra in a video hyperwall, ancient pottery dating, wool yarn spinning, 3D replica printing and more, according to a news release. Archaeologists and scholars who will give presentations include Fadi Bala’awi, Jordan’s director general of the Department of Antiquities, who will give a video presentation on “Archaeological Work and Tourism: Priority and Comprehensivity, the Conservation of Jordan”; and Leigh-Ann Bedal, associate professor of anthropology at Penn State Erie, who will speak on “The Petra Garden and Pool Complex as Visual Propaganda.” Others are Kent Bramlett, professor of archaeology and history of antiquity at La Sierra University; Cynthia Finlayson, associate professor of ancient, classical and Islamic archaeology andmuseum studies at Brigham Young University; Megan Perry, professor of anthropology and distinguished professor of international studies at East Carolina University; and Glenn Corbett, editor in chief of Biblical Archaeology Review. Petra, known as a filming location for Indiana Jones and other movies, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Petra’s cliff-side buildings with ornate entrances forged from pink sandstone served as a center of trade for the Nabataeans who settled the area in the fourth century B.C. Archaeology Discovery Weekend lectures will be held in the Troesh Conference Center of theZapara School of Business, and Sunday’s activities will take place at the Center for Near EasternArchaeology, all on La Sierra’s campus, 4500 Riverwalk Parkway, Riverside. Admission to all events is free. For information, registration, Zoom link and a downloadable program, go to lasierra.edu/cnea/discovery-weekend/.