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The BBC report on the story stated that the codices had been found in a cave in Jordan sometime between 2005 and 2007. [ 3 ] The Daily Telegraph added that metallurgical analysis on the books, and carbon dating on a piece of leather found with the collection, suggested that the books could be about 2,000 years old, although it also questioned ...
Deir Alla (Arabic: دير علا) is the site of an ancient Near Eastern town in Balqa Governorate, Jordan. The Deir Alla Inscription, datable to ca. 840–760 BCE, was found here. Tomb of the Muslim commander Abu Ubaidah ibn al-Jarrah
The Deir 'Alla inscription or Balaam inscription, known as KAI 312, is a famous [1] inscription discovered during a 1967 excavation in Deir 'Alla, Jordan.It is currently at the Jordan Archaeological Museum.
Al-Maghtas (Arabic: المغطس, meaning ' baptism ' or ' immersion '), officially known as Baptism Site "Bethany Beyond the Jordan", is an archaeological World Heritage Site in Jordan, on the east bank of the Jordan River, reputed to be the location of the Baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist and venerated as such since at least the Byzantine period. [1]
Abarim (Hebrew: הָעֲבָרִים, romanized: Hā-Avārīm) [1] [2] is the Hebrew name used in the Bible for a mountain range "across the Jordan", understood as east of the Jordan Rift Valley, i.e. in Transjordan, to the east and south-east of the Dead Sea, extending from Mount Nebo — its highest point — in the north, perhaps to the Arabian desert in the south.
Gilead is explained in the Hebrew Bible as derived from the Hebrew words גלעד gal‛êd, which in turn comes from gal ('heap, mound, hill') and ‛êd ('witness, testimony'). [5] If that is the case, Gilead means 'heap [of stones] of testimony'. There is also an alternative theory that it means 'rocky region'. [6]
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Abila (Arabic: ابيلا) was an ancient city east of the Jordan River in the Plains of Moab, later Peraea, near Livias, about twelve km northeast of the north shore of the Dead Sea. [ citation needed ] The site is identified with modern Khirbet el-Kafrayn , Jordan and identified on the Madaba Map as an unnamed icon.