Mystery of the Treasury Monument in Petra - Jordan - What was the purpose of building this wonder?

It`s imortalised in the end of the movie The Last Crusadar with Harrison Ford in the main role as Indiana Jones. For they who believe these wonder is fairytale, they need to think twice. Trhough history there hase been lot of speculations about the purpose for this monument. While some would propose that the Treasury Monument was a tomb, no tomb inscriptions or grave crypts have been discovered. Others have proposed that it was what the Arabs call it, a 'Treasury' or tax house for passing camel caravans, but archeologists and historians now doubt that many camel caravans came into Petra, as most of the caravans passed the city, traveling on the King's Highway a good number of miles away.

One thing that is certain, the Treasury Monument was built to impress. It`s the first monument that visitors see when they exited the siq, and it is also one of the finest monuments in all of Petra.The Treasury, Street of Facades, Water Works, The Theater, The Royal Tombs, High Place, Colonnade Street, Great Temple, Temple of Al Uzza, Temple of Dushares, Dier - the Monestary, Habis, Biera, City of Board Games, the Snake Monumen, Sabara Suburb, City Walls/Map, Al Beidha, Churches, Kubtha High Place, Wadi Nmeir and other interesting things.