Showing posts with the label Jordan

Limes Arabicus, The Chain of Fortifications That Protected The Roman Territory From Desert Tribes

Mar 23, 2023

When we talk about "limes", we usually think of the limits of the Roman Empire in northern Europe, in Germania or Britain. But in ...

The Madaba Mosaic Map

Sep 27, 2021

In 1884, an Orthodox Christian community that had recently moved to Madaba, a city in western Jordan, began the construction of a new Church...

The Big Circles of Jordan

May 18, 2017

The Big Circles are a collection of 12 giant circular stone structures spread across parts of Jordan and Syria. Despite they being over 2,00...

Siq, Petra’s Spectacular Gorge

Sep 29, 2016

The ancient city of Petra, located in the heart of the mountainous desert of southern Jordan, had different approaches in the past. One poss...

The Mysterious Desert Kites

Sep 14, 2015

In the 1920s, pilots of the Royal Air Force flying over the deserts of Israel, Jordan and Egypt saw strange line shapes in the ground that t...

Zaatari Refugee Camp: A City of its Own

Jun 1, 2015

When civil war erupted in Syria in 2011, more than three and a half million Syrians fled the country to the neighboring countries of Turkey,...

Organic Farming in the Deserts of Wadi Rum

Apr 20, 2014

The valley of Wadi Rum in southern Jordan, near the border with Saudi Arabia, has a landscape so alien it is nicknamed "Valley of the M...