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Site Name: Amman.Country: Jordan Nearest Town: Amman Nearest Village: Amman
Latitude: 31.950000N Longitude: 35.920000E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
0 | no data |
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Amman the capital of Jordan lies on a high plateau of 850 metres. Built originally on seven hills, the main areas of Amman gain their names from the hills (jabals) on whose slopes they lie. It has a wealth of history and prehistory and is dotted with a number of historic sites from the stone age to the Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Islamic eras. Neolithic sites and villages were discovered in the 1980s in a number of areas in the city, one such site being a village 10 times the size of Jericho. There is also the recent discovery just south of the city last July, of Tall Al-Umayri, a 3,500 year old temple from the Late Bronze Age (c.1500 BCE).
During the Iron Age, Amman was the Capital of the Ammonites, and it is referred to as Rabbath-Ammon in the Old Testament, an area thought to have been located where the ancient Citadel which towers above the city from atop Jabal al-Qala’a now stands. The city which was rebuilt during the Hellenistic and Roman periods was renamed Philadelphia in the 3rd century BCE by the Hellenistic ruler Ptolemy II eventually reverting to its Semitic name in around 635 CE when the short-lived rule of the Persian Sassanians collapsed before the Arabian armies of Islam.
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