Petra

This article is about the ancient human city in on Earth. For the country on Beast, see Petra (Beast).

Petra is a place in Jordan, where the Dynasty of Primes hid the Matrix of Leadership long ago.

Fiction

Revenge of the Fallen film

Following The Fallen's attempt to activate the Star Harvester on Earth, the faithful Primes realized that they had to hide the Matrix from their treacherous brother, or Earth and its sentient inhabitants would all die. Making the ultimate sacrifice, the Primes formed a tomb made of their own bodies in what would later be known as Petra. The Tomb of the Primes was then further hidden when the human natives built a structure surrounding it.

They chose... poorly.

Thousands of years later, Sam Witwicky, who held the knowledge of the AllSpark in his mind, was guided to the structure in Petra where the Tomb was supposed to be located. Not finding anything, the Autobot twins Skids and Mudflap began arguing, which naturally escalated from verbal abuse to physical abuse, damaging the structure around them. After Bumblebee threw the fighting twins out, Sam noticed that there were Cyberglyphics etched behind a fresco in the structure. Bumblebee immediately made a larger opening with his plasma cannon, revealing the Tomb of the Primes, and the Matrix of Leadership...which immediately crumbled to dust. Oops. Revenge of the Fallen

Notes

• Steven Spielberg also filmed in Petra for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade twenty years before his protege Bay did. However, Revenge of the Fallen filmed at El Deir ("The Monastery") rather than Al Khazneh ("The Treasury") from Indiana Jones. Rather kindly, as shown on the DVD, Bay took his mother to visit the location.

External links

• Petra on Wikipedia