AMMAN The French nobleman, archaeologist and orientalist Louis Felicien de Saulcy(1807-1880) left the first detailed account about Khirbat Faris, a site on the Karak Plateau, with ceramics from the Nabataean and Middle Islamic periods. Saulsy visited the site in 1851 while in 1896 Alois Musil(1868-1944) described the site as “ a well preserved tower and ruined houses”. The