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Mount Nebo, from where Moses is said to have seen the promised land.
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Mount Nebo, from where Moses is said to have seen the promised land.

So-called "Well of Moses" - certainly not the well from which he drew water from a rock of Mount Horeb, but Wadi Ain Musa might be the place where Moses was buried.
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So-called "Well of Moses" - certainly not the well from which he drew water...

Church of Casiseos and Amos, a Byzantine church of the 4th or 5th century, on the slope from Mount Nebo down to Wadi Afrit.
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Church of Casiseos and Amos, a Byzantine church of the 4th or 5th century, on th...

Dhibon,Jordan. A rampart of a Moabite fortification, 9th BCE, built either by the Israelite king Omri, or by the Moabite ruler Mesha who conquered the place. See king Mesha's victory stele 08-05-06/13, 08-05-14/55,56
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Dhibon,Jordan. A rampart of a Moabite fortification, 9th BCE, built either by...

Wadi el-Mujib, Jordan. In biblical times the deep valley of the Arnon or Gad formed a natural frontier between the Amorite,later the Israelite kingdoms in the North and the kingdom of Moab in the South.
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Wadi el-Mujib, Jordan. In biblical times the deep valley of the Arnon or G...

Kallirhoe, an antique spa with hot and cold springs. King Herod sought relief for various ills in its waters; a direct route leads from his fortress of Machaerus to the springs of the spa.
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Kallirhoe, an antique spa with hot and cold springs. King Herod sought relief...

Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by Alexander Iannaeus (ruled 103-76 BCE) and restored by king Herod the Great. St. John Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded in this fortress. The hill seen from afar.
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Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by...

Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by Alexander Iannaeus (ruled 103-76 BCE) and restored by king Herod the Great. St. John Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded in this fortress. The hill seen from afar.
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Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built b...

Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by Alexander Iannaeus (ruled 103-76 BCE) and restored by king Herod the Great. St. John Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded in this fortress. Columns of Herodes' palace.
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Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by...

Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by Alexander Iannaeus (ruled 103-76 BCE) and restored by king Herod the Great. St. John Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded in this fortress. Columns of Herodes' palace.
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Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by...

Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by Alexander Iannaeus (ruled 103-76 BCE) and restored by king Herod the Great. St. John Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded in this fortress. Columns of Herodes' palace.
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Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by...

The late-Roman temple of er-Rabba - an abandoned city dating from biblical times and inhabited until the Mamluk period (13th-15th CE). Inscriptions on the temple walls honour Emperors Diocletian and Maximian (286-305 CE).
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The late-Roman temple of er-Rabba - an abandoned city dating from biblica...