AMMAN Bayir was a water station and an old caravan post located in south-eastern Jordan. During ancient times, the incense trade was a significant source of income for the Arabian tribes, the Nabataean Kingdom and all parties involved, connecting the southern shores of the Arabian Peninsula with Gaza, Bosra and Babylonia on the northwest and north. Wadi Bayir itself is a
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AMMAN On Thursday, the German-Jordanian Society (DJG), led by the German-Jordanian University former professors Jochen Pleines (DJG president) and Anton Mangstl (DJG chairman of the Advisory Board), launched a Zoom conference on “Sustainable Water Management in the Jordanian Desert”. A team of scholars presented the works of the Eastern Jafr Joint Archaeohydrological
AMMAN The dromedary or one-humped camel is Arabia’s legendary animal and it features rock art from the time immemorial. But not many studies have been conducted on these images and their significance, with the main interpretations focusing on either highly functional or highly symbolic meanings. The domesticated dromedary camel has had a dominant presence in Arabia for over
AMMAN Although it is clear that the eastern parts of Jordan are arid areas, the area of the basalt desert is full of inscriptions and engravings. Scholars have been finding thousands of rock inscriptions and they called them the “Ancient North Arabian” under the South Semitic branch.