4 posts tagged with Byzantine
Inscribed by UNESCO in 2015 as the eastern-bank baptism site of Jesus, Al-Maghtas now contains five excavated churches, hermit caves, and a Roman-era pilgrimage path — on the Jordan side of a much-shrunken river.
On a 378-metre escarpment above the Yarmouk Gorge, the Greco-Roman city of Gadara survives — basalt columns, an underground mausoleum, and a view that takes in Israel, Syria, and Lebanon.
A 6th-century Byzantine mosaic of two million tesserae depicting Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and the Holy Land — discovered in 1884 under the floor of a Greek Orthodox church and still there.
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 did, all the way to Jerusalem.