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233 places in the atlas, 13 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
PPN to Late Neolithic · PPNB / Yarmoukian
32 PPNB–Late Neolithic limestone kites (8000–4500 BCE) on Wadi Arabilah scarp.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
PPNB to Late Neolithic · Eastern Badia Neolithic
Wisad north ridge: 5 radial kites on 45-m hill summit above Black Desert hamada.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
EB through Persian; LB-Iron cemetery peak · Canaanite → Egyptian residency (LB) → Philistine/Sea Peoples → Iron Ammonite
Jordan Valley cemetery tell — 500-grave LB–Iron cemetery with Egyptian anthropoid coffins, Philistine Bichrome and Jerusalem-frame burials, British Museum 1985–2013.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (c.11600–10200 cal BP) · PPNA (Natufian → PPNB transition)
PPNA megasite (c.11.6–10.2 ka, Structure O75 20 m amphitheatre, 40 pithouses) at Faynan oasis.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Chalcolithic – Roman (peaks: Chalcolithic, Iron Age–Roman Edom/Phaino) · Chalcolithic miners to Edomite–Nabataean–Roman (Phaino)
30-km copper valley (4500 BCE–400 CE) — mines, slag heaps and Roman Phaino mining town.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Late PPNB to Early Pottery Neolithic (7000–6200 BCE) · Southern Levant PPNB → Wadi Rabah (PN)
Late PPNB–Wadi Rabah terrace village tracking Faynan aridity collapse at 7000 BCE.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Temple complex
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Multi-period temple culture
Amman Citadel — Roman Temple Podium Niche in Amman, Citadel (Jabal al-Qal'a), Jordan is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) temple complex attribut…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age urban
Jerash — North Theatre West Entrance (Gerasa) in Jerash Governorate, Jerash, Jordan is a Bronze Age to Classical (3000 BCE–500 CE) ancient city attributed …
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
EB through Persian; LB-Iron I transition key · Ammonite frontier; EB Canaanite → LB Canaanite/Ammonite
Ammonite wadi fortress with earliest Levantine four-room house (13th c. BCE) — LB-Iron citadel, casemate-rampart and Persian farm in Madaba Plains.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Chalcolithic-Iron Age (c.5000-600 BCE) · Levantine EBA to Iron Age (Jordan Valley)
Tell Deir Alla (Pethor/Succoth) — buried chalcolithic-iron tell/village at Balqa Governorate.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (7000–6500 BCE) then Nabataean Little Petra · PPNB then Nabataean
Beidha — Nabataean Small Petra Extension Neolithic Tell in Ma'an Governorate, Jordan is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (7000–6500 BCE) then Nabataean Little Petra tell attributed to PPNB then Nabataean.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Chalcolithic-Iron Age (c.5000-600 BCE) · Levantine EBA to Iron Age (Jordan Valley)
Tell el-Hayyat — buried chalcolithic-iron tell/village at Irbid Governorate.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Chalcolithic-Iron Age (c.5000-600 BCE) · Levantine EBA to Iron Age (Jordan Valley)
Tell Abu al-Kharaz — buried chalcolithic-iron tell/village at Irbid Governorate.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Nabataean 2nd c. BCE–106 CE with Thamudic rock art use · Nabataean (Arab Petra sphere)
Wadi Rum (Iram) – Nabataean desert hydraulic landscape: free-standing dams (Abu Khashabah), rock-cut cisterns (bir, e.g., Lawrence spring cistern), channelized Jabal Rum seep capture and 300+…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Local Neolithic
Borobudur Hydraulic Basin North in Harrat al-Sham, Jordan is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) ancient village attributed to Local Neolithic culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Early Bronze Age c.3200–3000 BCE (Late Chalcolithic-EBA) · Levantine EBA / Ghassulian network
Jawa (c.3200–3000 BCE) – Black Desert basalt town with 4m-high gravity masonry dam impounding Wadi Rajil (Jawa Reservoir), 8 km canal network and 3-pool system capturing 31,000 m³.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Buried city
Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze Age
Altar Platform West in Jordan Valley, Jordan is a Iron Age (1200 BCE–500 CE) buried city attributed to Bronze Age culture.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Epipalaeolithic (25190–10200 BCE) · Kebaran-Natufian
Azraq Oasis — Epipalaeolithic Aggregation in Zarqa Governorate, Azraq Basin, Jordan is a Epipalaeolithic (25190–10200 BCE) ancient village attributed to Kebaran-Natufian culture.
🇯🇴 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
PPNA (c.9300–8600 BCE) · Sultaniyean PPNA
PPNA village (c.9300–8600 BCE) on the Lisan Peninsula at -200 m beside the Dead Sea, excavated by Bill Finlayson. Rectan...
🇯🇴 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 · Hydraulic works
EB I (Proto-urban Chalco–EB transition) · Jawa proto-urban Black Desert (Chalcolithic-EB)
South satellite of Jawa's 3300 BCE basalt dam system: 52-m curvilinear dam impounding 2,000 m³ on Wadi Rajil.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
PPNB Late to PN (7000–5800 BCE) · Central Qattafi gorge bottleneck trappers
7 bidirectional central gorge kites 710 m in 3.2 km 25 m-deep narrows — 150 m walls plus deepest 1.6 m pits with 21 gazelle skeletons in situ.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
PPNB Late–PN (7100–6000 BCE) · Maitland Mesa chapel-associated trappers (SE Badia Late Neolithic)
8 Maitland triangular-pen kites 750 m with chapel 40 m from pen QEM-03 — quern butchery slab and infant burial chapel.
