3 posts tagged with Umayyad
Built before November 24, 710 CE — the inscription is dated to the day. A 35-metre square fortress with 60 rooms around a central courtyard, in style equal parts Syrian, Sassanid, and Byzantine.
Built between 723 and 743 CE in the Eastern Desert by an Umayyad caliph, Qusayr Amra has the most complete surviving early-Islamic frescoes — the Six Kings, hunting scenes, the bathing-women panel, and a hemispheric zodiac dome with 35 identifiable constellations.
Bronze Age fortress, Roman temple, Byzantine basilica, Umayyad palace — and the best view of downtown Amman. The Citadel is a lazy 90-minute walk that reads like a time-lapse.