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🌐 The Madaba Map: the oldest surviving mosaic of the Holy Land, still in the church floor
#Byzantine #Holy Land #Jordan

The Madaba Map: the oldest surviving mosaic of the Holy Land, still in the church floor

A 6th-century Byzantine mosaic of two million tesserae depicting Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and the Holy Land — discovered in 1884 under the flo…

ag_shwei6991 · 5 min read
🌐 Beidha: the 9,000-year-old village 3 km north of Petra
#Archaeology #Beidha #Jordan

Beidha: the 9,000-year-old village 3 km north of Petra

Three kilometres north of the Petra gate is one of the earliest villages with permanent stone architecture in the Levant — older than the p…

ag_shwei6991 · 5 min read
🌐 Mount Nebo: where Moses saw the Promised Land — and the view is still the point
#Byzantine #Jordan #Madaba

Mount Nebo: where Moses saw the Promised Land — and the view is still the point

Seven hundred metres above the Jordan Valley, the summit where Moses is said to have died — and on a clear day you can see the same view he…

ag_shwei6991 · 6 min read
🌐 Jerash: walking the Roman city the 749 earthquake left behind
#Archaeology #Decapolis #Gerasa

Jerash: walking the Roman city the 749 earthquake left behind

Forty-eight kilometres north of Amman, the Decapolis city of Gerasa survives in better shape than almost any Roman ruin outside Italy — unt…

ag_shwei6991 · 7 min read
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