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The Antiquities of Jordan (Paperback, Revised ed.)
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The Antiquities of Jordan (Paperback, Revised ed.)
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In his classic account of the antiquities of Jordan, Gerald Harding
writes with an erudition based upon a lifetimeis knowledge of the
region, describing all the major sites of interest in the country.
Some of the most remarkable and famous sites in the world, from
Petra, the unique Nabataean city hewn from sandstone, to Mafjar,
the most elaborately planned and lavishly decorated Umayyad palace
in the Middle East, with the largest single area of ancient mosaic
in the world, lie within Jordan or the West Bank. Archaeological
evidence of human occupation exists from Palaeolithic times until
the Bronze Age when much of Jordan's history may be adduced from
the stories of the Old Testament. The area was subjugated by the
Assyrians, the Persians, the Greeks, and the Arabs whose houses,
palaces, theatres and castles often provide the principal surviving
evidence of these peoples: Jericho, the oldest city in the world,
where remarkable statues of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period were
found; Jerash, a large and comprehensive Roman city on the fringe
of the desert, only rediscovered in 1806; huge Crusader castles
like Qalat al Rabadh and Shobak; and Khirbat Qumran, site of the
Essene settlement and of the Dead Sea Scrolls with whose discovery
the author was intimately involved. The Antiquities of Jordan
remains an invaluable and absorbing guide for students of Middle
Eastern archaeology, as well as for those who know Jordan or who
wish to visit the country.
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