#Ottoman

The Aqaba Saraya: the Mamluk-era fort that became a cinema and is now a museum

On the Aqaba seafront, the small Saraya building has been a Mamluk way-station, an Ottoman fort, a 1950s cinema, and a heritage museum — each layer visible in the masonry.

The Hejaz Railway ruins at Wadi Rum: Ottoman engineering, T.E. Lawrence sabotage raids, and the station that survived

Built 1900–1908 to carry pilgrims from Damascus to Medina, sabotaged by T.E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt 1916–1918. The Wadi Rum station and several ruined sections are still on the desert floor.

As-Salt: the Ottoman-era city UNESCO inscribed for being decent to its neighbours

Inscribed in 2021 as Al-Salt, The Place of Tolerance and Urban Hospitality — yellow limestone houses with arched windows and frescoed ceilings, a 19th-century merchant city that worked because Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived on the same street.