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On the eastern foothills of the Jordan Valley, a tell with continuous occupation from 6,000 BCE to the Mamluk period — Bronze Age temple, Roman theatre, Byzantine basilica, Mamluk mosque, all on one site.
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.
Built in the 2nd century under Antoninus Pius and oriented north so the sun stays out of spectators' eyes — the largest surviving Roman theatre east of the Mediterranean.
Forty-eight kilometres north of Amman, the Decapolis city of Gerasa survives in better shape than almost any Roman ruin outside Italy — until the 749 earthquake.