Jerash, Jordan

Jerash was amazing. It is located a few miles north of Amman and is the site of some of the most impressive Roman ruins in the middle east. Walking thrugh the ruins you can imagine what a magnificant place it must have been in the early part of the 1st century

Hadrian's Arch

View through the Arch

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The Oval Plaza

Inside the Oval Plaza

Intricate stone flooring in the Plaza

Cardo -Main Street

Cardo

Cardo is 600 yards long

Temple of Zeus on the Cardo

Underneath a Theatre

North Theatre

Theatre Seating

View to the stage area-

From the stage area

Backdrop of stage area

Seating area detail

Temple of Atemus

Floor of "Cathedral -one of 3 churches

Tiles of church floor