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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 around 290 AD, has officially reopened following a comprehensive restoration, reaffirming its place among the earliest known Christian churches in the world. A Church Built Before Christianity Was Legal What…
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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, dating back nearly 9,000 years. Crafted between 7200–6250 BCE, these lime-plaster and reed figures rank among the earliest large-scale human representations ever created — and they refuse to fit into…
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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 Christian devotion. Recent studies led by Professor David Vila of John Brown University have revealed multiple Byzantine basilicas, a monastic complex, and a newly deciphered church inscription dated to 580…