Jordanian Archaeological Sites

Aqaba
The site of Aqaba is a medieval Islamic town in Jordan originally called Ayla and occupied from the Chalcolithic period through Roman times.

Avila of the Decapolis
Occupied beginning during the Iron Age, excavations from the Covenant Theological Seminary have concentrated on the Greco-Roman, Islamic, and Byzantine occupations of this site atop Tell Umm el-Amad.

Ayn Qasiyya (Jordan)
Ayn Qasiyya, located in the Azraq Oasis of Jordan, is an Epipaleolithic site where an unusual burial was identified.

Beidha
Early Neolithic site; from Ancient Near East, a selection of published book chapters of The Natufian Encampment at Beidha, written by Brian Byrd.

Gerasa
The ancient town of Gerasa or Jerash, located 48 kilometers north of the Jordanian capital of Amman, is one of the best preserved Roman towns in the world.

Humeima
The Nabataean, Roman, and Byzantine settlements, excavation from Nabatea.net.

Jerash
From al Mashriq and the Jordan Distribution Agency, an electronic copy of a pamphlet including the history of Jerash and a bunch of photographs.

Kasr Bshir
From Oculis, description and photographs from this nearly intact Roman military outpost.

Khirbet el-Dharih
A joint Franco-Jordanian project, excavations at this Nabataean settlement located on the ancient King's Highway.

Khirbet Qumran
The archaeological site of Khirbet Qumran is an ancient cave site, from whence was pulled the first of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947 and 1948, causing all kinds of trouble.

Nativ Hagdud
Early Neolithic village on the southern Jordan River, site description from Ancient Near East.

Petra: Lost City of Stone
From the American Museum of Natural History, a website on the ancient city of Petra, designed in conjunction with an exhibit.

Qusayr' Amra
Quasayr' Amra is an Islamic castle in Jordan, about fifty miles west of Amman.

Teleilat Ghassul
The archaeological site of Teleilat Ghassul is a Chalcolithic site located in the Jordan Valley about 50 miles northeast of the Dead Sea.

Tell Nimrin
A virtual tour of this Middle Bronze Age/Byzantine site, from a joint project by Case Western Reserve University, Willamette University and the University of Jordan.

The Fortress of Machaerous
From the Franciscan Archaeological Institute, excavations at this Roman to Byzantine era site.

The Great Temple at Petra
Brown University, Martha Sharp Joukowsky; excavations at this capital of ancient Nabataea famous for its trade and its hydraulic engineering. The web page includes a brief tour of the temple reconstruction and some photographs of the excavations.

Umm al-Rasas
From the Franciscan Archaeological Institute, a site occupied from Iron Age II (seventh-sixth centuries B.C.) to the Abbasid period (ninth century A.D.).

Umm el-Jimal
Byzantine/Early Islamic town the best preserved example of late-antique (4th-9th c.) rural domestic architecture in the Eastern Mediterranean; from Calvin College.

Wadi Feinan
Wadi Feinan is the name of a wadi, or dry valley, in Jordan, where a number of important Chalcolithic and Bronze Age sites are located.

Wadi Hammeh 27 (Jordan)
Wadi Hammeh 27 is a Natufian period site, one of several sites located in Wadi al-Hammeh on the Jordan valley near where a hot spring joins the wadi.

Wadi Ziqlab
From Ted Banning at the University of Toronto, work on several sites dated to the Epipalaeolithic, Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Early Bronze Age in northern Jordan.