🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Baʿja
Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B · Arabah/South Levantine LPPNB (Basta–Ba'ja horizon)
LPPNB cliff-gorge two-storey village with siq entry, burned houses and children's mass-grave.
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🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B · Arabah/South Levantine LPPNB (Basta–Ba'ja horizon)
LPPNB cliff-gorge two-storey village with siq entry, burned houses and children's mass-grave.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Early Bronze to Medieval (3000 BCE–1400 CE) · Hydraulic culture
Petra — Ad-Deir Ancillary Cistern Terrace in Ma'an, Petra, Ad-Deir, Jordan is a Early Bronze to Medieval (3000 BCE–1400 CE) hydraulic attributed to Hydraul…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Rock-cut
Bronze to Iron Age (2000 BCE–300 CE) · Rock-cut tradition
Little Petra (Siq al-Barid) — Painted Biclinium in Ma'an, Siq al-Barid, Jordan is a Bronze to Iron Age (2000 BCE–300 CE) rock_cut attributed to Rock-cut tr…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Temple complex
Nabataean (7 BCE–250 CE) · Nabataean
Khirbet et-Tannur — Mountain Shrine in Tafilah Governorate, Edom Mountains, Jordan is a Nabataean (7 BCE–250 CE) temple complex attributed to Nabataean culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city
Nabataean to Roman (312 BCE–363 CE earthquake) · Nabataean / Arab
Nabataean caravan city (312 BCE–106 CE) carved into sandstone cliffs: Al-Khazneh Treasury, Theatre, Monastery Ad-Deir, Royal Tombs, and hydraulic system capturing desert flash floods.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Temple complex
Nabataean 1st c BCE–1st c CE · Nabataean
Detailed precinct within Petra (already listed as city) – but as distinct temple elaboration: Al-Khazneh 40 m façade and Ad-Deir 50 m, both tombs-temples with Hellenistic façades.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Rock-cut
Nabataean (1st c. BCE–1st c. CE; Treasury c.56 BCE Aretas IV) · Nabataean
Siq-end Treasury excavated by Horsfield 1929 and recent, empty tombs, annex row with loculi and triclinia.
