The Dead Sea Scrolls The Dead Sea Scrolls are of religious and historical importance because they include the only known surviving copies of Biblical documents made before AD 100. These scrolls…

Tulaylat al-Ghassul Wall Paintings One of the most difficult tasks for scholars is to interpret ancient works of art without any written documents. Art objects may provide us with a…

Tal Siran Bottle: A Royal Ammonite Poem Three generations of Ammonite kings are mentioned in the Ammonite text that is inscribed on this bronze bottle: Amminadab, his father Hasal’l, and…

Inscribed Capital Column capital with Arabic inscriptions. Three sides of the capital are decorated with a row of acanthus leaves separated by paired volutes. One side contains a ten-line Arabic…

Oldest Large-Scale Statue in the World The most dramatic discovery was at ‘Ayn Ghazal, where 32 lime plaster statues were found in 1983 and 1985. These statues are among the…

Wadi al-Mataha Burial Excavations at Wadi al-Mataha in Petra uncovered a 17,000-year-old burial with a remarkably well preserved skeleton. This is among the earliest known human remains in Jordan.Analysis of…

Oldest Large-Scale Sculpted Slab in the Middle East Stone slab incised with a repeated array of concentric irregular squares.A line of three slabs bearing this decoration were found in a…