An ancient city from the Byzantine era, once thought lost to time, has been rediscovered in southern Jordan. Known as Tharais ...

Melanie Lidman is an AP reporter and former Times of Israel reporter Israeli archaeologists have discovered the earliest evidence of cotton in the ancient Near East during excavations at Tel Tsaf ...

Areas like Jericho were well known in ancient periods for their olives ... The bushes presented on the Madaba Map are of a generic plant growing around the Dead Sea and the Jordan River. “The plant in ...

We don't know what the Utes, Goshutes and ancient ... River near downtown Denver, but it is a great example that the Jordan can be enjoyed by canoe or kayak now and more so soon. Our Jordan certainly ...

AMMAN — Khirbat Ataruz is located 24 kilometres south of the town of Madaba, 10 kilometres west of the village Libb and 3 kilometres east of the ancient site of Machaerus ... and Tell Dan in west of ...

From Petra to Wadi Rum, Jordan’s seven Unesco sites await explorers Visitors tour near ... on the eastern bank of the Jordan River, this sacred site is home to churches, chapels, and ancient ...

But archaeologists in Jordan recently uncovered a truly old ... “This combination of the two primary idioms of the ancient Near East is extremely rare, and will help to better identify the ...