Early Bronze Age I mortuary practices present a fascinating opportunity to consider how
archaeologists approach the question of regionalism, a task rooted fundamentally in the …

This study forges a novel link between an image molded unto an oil lamp from Carthage and
the text that inspired it. Wrongly considered unique and misinterpreted for over a century, the …

This three-part article presents the history of archaeological research in Jordan, especially in
the last one hundred years and concentrating on methodological advances. The first part of …

ABSTRACT Ghor As-Safi is a limited resources agricultural area in Jordan and rely heavily
on the use of medicinal plants to treat many diseases. This study aimed to document the …

-434-nightly) but unfortunately nothing was done to protect the site even though a Jordanian
police station and the local governor's office were located directly across the road. When …

Several marble slabs fashioned like game boards for XII scripta/Alea come from Christian
catacombs in Rome. Often deliberately cut or fragmented, they were used as funeral slabs …

The idea and the content of the term 'site museum', and more specifically of an
'archaeological site museum', is a complex combination of the notions of 'site','museum', and …

Umm Tawabin is a large fortress (elevation 200 bml) strategically situated on top of a
mountain overlooking the northern Wadi ʿArabah in Jordan. The site comprises a citadel …

The Tel Aviv University excavations at the Yotvata oasis have revealed much new evidence
on human activity here in the Early Islamic period, evidence that—when combined with the …

Inscriptions from the Byzantine period in southern Jordan include a corpus of mainly
funerary Greek and Aramaic texts discovered in recent years in the Ghor as-Safi area of …