Petra is the most well-known archaeological site in Jordan, but the country The silence reminds you whose word is true. As you hear the echo of yourįootsteps rebound in Petra’s empty rooms and tombs cut out of the cliffsides, Sandstone wastes of Petra, pictured above and made famous by the blockbusterįilm Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Who is right about their existence? The Judge of all the earth or the skepticalĪll you have to do is visit modern Jordan 1 to find out. Of Edom: “But Esau I have hated, and laid waste his mountains and his heritageįor the jackals of the wilderness” ( Malachi 1:3). God’s condemnations against them are often fierce. But their presence looms large in Scripture. Since so few artifacts survive from these peoples who lived 2,000–3,000 yearsĪgo, many archaeologists have tended to dismiss them as either figments of the These were the Ammonites, Moabites, and Edomites. Jews, they were sometimes fearsome neighbors to be dreaded or subdued. To most of us, they are just names on a page, but to the ancient Company Alpha Daily Tours organizes trips with a guide from the "Alpha" terminal on the seventh ring in Amman at 2 pm.Several odd-sounding nations ending with –ite crop up again and again Getting there: Minibuses go all day long from the Al-Abdali station in Amman. Mosaic map of the Holy Land of VI century ©Yuriy Buriakįrescoes in the St. There are also factories in Madaba (shopping for tourists) that manufacture different mosaic products. Since Madaba is located between Amman and the Dead Sea, be sure to visit the Church of St. You can see Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, and the Nile Delta. The map is surprisingly beautiful and quite accurate. In 1880, the Christians cleared the debris and rebuilt the city.
In 746, the city was destroyed by an earthquake.
One of its sights is a mosaic map of the Holy Land of VI century. Madaba is an ancient city in Jordan, 35 kilometers from Amman.
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