Jordan archaeology

Two Human Faces Carved in Stone at a 9,000-Year-Old Shrine in Jordan

Two human-faced stone figures discovered in Jordan’s southeastern desert stood at the center of an unusual Neolithic ritual complex associated with large-scale gazelle hunting. Dating…

3,000-Year-Old Burial Cups in Jordan Reveal Possible Traces of Exotic Spices

Nearly 3,000 years ago, mourners at ancient Pella in present-day Jordan placed ceramic cups alongside their dead, sometimes positioning them beneath the heads of the…

One of the World’s Oldest Churches Reopens in Aqaba, Dating Back to Around 290 AD

Jordan’s Red Sea port city of Aqaba has brought one of early Christianity’s rarest monuments back into public view. The Aqaba Archaeological Church, dated to…

9,000-Year-Old Ain Ghazal Statues Rewrite What We Thought We Knew About Early Human Art

Archaeologists are once again turning their attention to one of the most startling artistic breakthroughs of the Neolithic world: the monumental statues of Ain Ghazal,…

Excavations at Abila Reveal Byzantine Basilicas and a Rare Church Inscription

Archaeological research at Abila, one of the ancient Decapolis cities in northern Jordan, is uncovering a long-lost landscape of Byzantine faith, Greco-Roman art, and early…