assalaamu alaikum. alaikum assalaamu. and myrrh is for medicine. for your health.myrrh may also have had a religious value for the nabataea ns. their giant tombs symbolise the significance of the afterlife, and it's possible that these precious substances may have been included in their burial rites. to ask about their beliefs and how they honoured their dead, i'm meeting up with eminent archaeologist dr fawzi abudanah. he's brought me to a tomb off the beaten track that's literally been lost to the sands of time. oh, my goodness! indiana jones, eat your heart out. wait till you see this! so inside, you see, it's a chamber. and then we have two sides of this big chamber. smaller chambers. i just want to dig, because what am i going to find underneath here? it's all hidden, it's all secret still. it is actually. would there be more graves down at the bottom? it is quite possible. they were using every possible space to bury, and most of these tombs are family tombs. so they would keep their beloved ones together in the same place. we nearly know 30% of ancient petra