Wadi Rum, also known as the Valley of the Moon, is a valley cut into sandstone and granite in southern Jordan. One of the rock formations in the valley was named "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom" after the title of an autobiographical account of a British officer, T. E. Lawrence, who based his operations at Wadi Rum during the Arab Revolt of 1917 and 1918.
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