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Wadi Rum (Arabic: وادي رم Wādī Ramm, also Wādī al-Ramm), known also as the Valley of the Moon (Arabic: وادي القمر Wādī al-Qamar), is a valley cut into the sandstone and granite rock in southern Jordan, near the border with Saudi Arabia and about 60 km (37 mi) to the east of the city of Aqaba.
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.
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.
Wadi Rum is a valley in southern Jordan whose resemblance to the surface of Mars has made it a popular tourist and filming location, including scenes of The Martian. Jordan sits strategically at the crossroads of the continents of Asia, Africa and Europe, [116] in the Levant area of the Fertile Crescent, a cradle of civilization. [117]
English: Wadi Rum is a spectacularly scenic desert valley in southern Jordan. Masses of soaring cliffs and sandstone and granite mountains. Wadi Rum is Arabic for "Roman Valley", or "Valley of the Rum", as the Greeks (or East Romans) were called in the early Byzantine era by Arab people, probably referring to Christian Byzantine monastic or ascetic communities in the area.
Wadi Rum is located next to Petra in the far south of Jordan. Massive rock formations and red sand dunes dominate the landscape. [ 26 ] It has been the home of many cultures over 12,000 years. [ 23 ]
Thamudic inscriptions at Wadi Rum. Thamudic, named for the Thamud tribe, is a group of epigraphic scripts known from large numbers of inscriptions in Ancient North Arabian (ANA) alphabets, which have not yet been properly studied. These texts are found over a huge area from southern Syria to Yemen.
In wadi areas, gravelly washes or places subject to flash floods, there is a more diverse flora which includes Tamarix, Artemisia and Acacia, and pebbly areas typically have Salsola verticillata and Halogeton alopecuroides. [9] The national flower of Jordan is the black iris (Iris nigricans) which can be found growing near Madaba. [10]