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<< Our Photo Pages >> Tall al-Umayri - Ancient Village or Settlement in Jordan

Submitted by motist on Saturday, 03 July 2010  Page Views: 5681

Multi-periodSite Name: Tall al-Umayri Alternative Name:
Country: Jordan
NOTE: This site is 9.64 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Amman
Latitude: 31.868825N  Longitude: 35.887962E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Tall al-Umayri
Tall al-Umayri submitted by motist : Tall al-Umayri (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Settlement in Jordan. The site of Tall al-Umayri is located along the Queen Alia Airport Highway ca 20 km to the south of downtown Amman, Jordan, and ca 10 km northeast of Hesban. It was selected by Andrews University archaeologists for initial exploration because of earlier surface investigations that had pointed to significant Bronze and Iron Age occupation of the site.

Excavations at Tall al-Umayri were started in 1984 and have continued until the present. To a very significant degree the goals and methods of the project built and expanded on those incubated by the Heshbon Expedition, including the commitment to studying the site and its surrounding region as a multi-millennial complex unity using best practices drawn from both biblical and anthropolgoical archaeology.
To date ten field seasons have been carried out at Tall al-Umayri. These investigations have uncovered a rural village and burial grounds from the Early Bronze Age, a fortified city from the Middle and Late Bronze Age, and Early Iron Age rural village and an Ammonite citadel. An intensive survey of the site's hinterlands has brought to light dozens of rural client villages from the time of the Ammonites.

More at madabaplains.org, mppumayri.org/, and http://www.wallawalla.edu/academics/departments/theology/mpp/research.htm.
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Tall al-Umayri
Tall al-Umayri submitted by motist  : Tall al-Umayri (Vote or comment on this photo)

Tall al-Umayri
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Tall al-Umayri
Tall al-Umayri submitted by motist  : Tall al-Umayri trio Matseboth courtesy of the restorer (Vote or comment on this photo)

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