Irbid Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Jun)
Umm Qays Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Jun)
The Roman Western Theatre of Umm Qais.
The Roman Western Theatre of Umm Qais #staycation is found on the western slope of the city's acropolis. Seated up to 3,000 people and was central to the artistic and cultural life of the ancient city, before being adapted and used for other purposes later. #artyinjordan🇯🇴
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Around the mid-1st century AD, a first section of the Decumanus Maximus was paved with basalt slabs. The rectangular slabs are laid at an angle in order to prevent the joints from being broadened by the wheels of carts. Only in front of iconic buildings do they lie parallel to the roadside for a short distance. The busy traffic left visible traces in the pavement (see photo above).
During the Severan period (193 - 235), the Decumanus Maximus was greatly enhanced and prolonged into the city areas which had continued growing westwards. Estrades with numerous statues of honour, colonnades and porticoes as well as other monuments of urban representation were built on both sides. It is assumed that the colonnaded street fulfilled the function of a linear forum for which in other cities extensive squares were usually laid out.
A pressure pipeline constructed of large basalt blocks runs about 1.5 m below the pavement. Smaller clay or lead pipe systems were only installed in Byzantine times under the sidewalk at the height of the row of shops or at the older arch monument. #artyinjordan🇯🇴
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Pella Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Jun)
Pella: A Window into Jordan's Ancient Past
Pella, also known as Tabaqat Fahl, is an ancient city in northwest Jordan that contains ruins from the Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Canaanite, Hellenistic, and Islamic periods. It is located near a rich water source within the eastern foothills of the Jordan Valley, close to the modern village of Tabaqat Fahl. It is not known who founded the Hellenistic town of Pella in Transjordan, which makes it hard to assess who exactly gave it its Greek name and precisely why.
The site is situated 130 km north of Amman. Pella's ruins (predominantly temples, churches, and housing) have been partially excavated by teams of archaeologists and attract thousands of tourists annually but especially in spring, during which time the area is awash with spring flowers.
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Archaeological Museum of Umm Qais Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Jun)
Gadara: Jordan's Ancient Black City
Umm Qais, also known as Gadara, is an ancient city in northern Jordan that contains ruins from the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods. The site is located on a ridge 378 metres above sea level, overlooking the Sea of Tiberias, the Golan Heights, and the Yarmouk River gorge.
Umm Qais is divided into three main areas: the archaeological site (Gadara), the traditional village (Umm Qais), and the modern town of Umm Qais.
The oldest archaeological evidence at Umm Qais extends back to the second half of the third century BCE, and the site appears to have been founded as a military colony by Alexander the Great's Macedonian Greeks.
Gadara was a centre of Greek culture in the region during the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The city was strategically important and was repeatedly the focus of military conquests throughout the succession of Syrian Wars between 274 - 188 BCE.
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