#Madaba

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 floor of a Greek Orthodox church and still there.

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 did, all the way to Jerusalem.