Jerash a View into the Old World
Jerash is located 40 kilometres North of Amman and is 550 metres above sea level. Between the 1st and 4th centuries, among the scores of cities whic...
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Madaba
The trip south from Amman along the 5000-year-old King's Highway is one of the most memorablejourneys in the Holy Land, passing through a string of ancient...
Umm Arrasas
The Old and New Testaments mention it, the Romans fortified it, and the local Christians were still embellishing it with Byzantine-style mosaics well...
Shobak
Just off the King's Highway 190 km south of Amman and less than an hour north of Petra stands an impressive castle as a lonely reminder of former...
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The River Jordan
The Jordan River—or River Jordan, as it is commonly called—is one of the most sacred places, both historically and symbolically, for Christians throughout the world. Joshua, Elijah, Elisha, John the Baptist and Jesus Christ all crossed it during their...
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Ahl Al Kahf (The Seven Sleepers)
The story of the Seven Sleepers occurs both in Islam (as Sura 18 of The Quran) and in Christianity ('The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus' in Jacobus de Voragine's 13th century collection...
Madaba
The trip south from Amman along the 5000-year-old King's Highway is one of the most memorablejourneys in the Holy Land, passing through a string of ancient sites. The first city you come upon is Madaba,...
Umm Arrasas
The Old and New Testaments mention it, the Romans fortified it, and the local Christians were still embellishing it with Byzantine-style mosaics well over 100 years after the beginning of Muslim...
Shobak
Just off the King's Highway 190 km south of Amman and less than an hour north of Petra stands an impressive castle as a lonely reminder of former Crusader glory dating from the same turbulent...
The City of Irbid
City in northern Jordan with aprox 300,000 inhabitants (2005 estimate), located 53 miles (85 km) north of the capital city, Amman ,in the highlands at an elevation of 620 metres. It is the capital of...
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