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Jerusalem on the Madaba Map. Muwakir (Arabic for Machaerus) was the hilltop stronghold of Herod the Great.Upon Herod's death, his son Herod Antipas inhabited the fortress, and ordered John the Baptist to be beheaded there and where the fabled Salomé daughter of Herodias is said to have danced the famous Dance of the Seven Veils thus asking for John the Baptists' head.
Situated in southern Jordan, Wadi Rum features a great variety of desert landforms including sandstone valleys, natural arches, gorges, cliffs, landslides and caverns. The site also contains extensive rock art, inscriptions and archaeological remains, bearing witness to more than 12,000 years of continuous human habitation.
(March 2014) The Jordan Museum in 2014. ... Visit Jordan - Museums in Jordan This page was last edited on 28 January 2025, at 01:13 (UTC). Text is ...
In 2021, Jordan and Israel reached a historic agreement to open up the Jordan-Israel air corridor and allow flights that previously flew around Israel to cross over into each country’s airspace ...
The Arch of Hadrian was built to honour the visit of Emperor Hadrian to Gerasa in 129/130 AD. The oval Forum. Jerash has developed dramatically in the last century with the growing importance of the tourism industry in the city. Jerash is now the second-most popular tourist attraction in Jordan, closely behind the ruins of Petra. On the western ...
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The Jordan Archaeological Museum was established in 1951, atop Amman's Citadel Hill, to host Jordan's most important archaeological findings.However, the old site became too small and the idea of developing a new modern museum emerged in 2005. [3]
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