🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Wadi Al-Ghadf Kites (Azraq South Ghadf Depression)
Late Neolithic to Chalcolithic · Azraq depression hunters
Wadi al-Ghadf depression: 4 single-arm kites using 8-m natural caliche bluff as wall.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Al-Karak
Al-Karak (Arabic: الكرك), in English sources often simply Karak, is a city in Jordan known for its medieval Kerak Castle, which is one of the three largest in the region, the other two being in Syria.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Azraq Basin Desert Kites (Qa al-Azraq Deflation Rim)
Late Neolithic (PPNB-related) · Azraq oasis Neolithic foragers
Kite field on the basalt deflation rim of Qa al-Azraq sebkha (520 m, 31.83°N 36.82°E), the lowest point of the 12,700 km² Azraq Basin shared with Syria (94% in Jordan) and Saudi.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Geoglyph
Maitland's Mesa Eastern Wadi Arm Kites (Wadi al-Qattafi East Arm Spur)
PPNB–Late Neolithic (7100–5500 BCE) · PPNB–Late Neolithic
Eastern spur of Wadi al-Qattafi system 8 km east of Maitland's Mesa (685 m) toward Jibal al-Khashabiyeh kite corridor (Kennedy).
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Anabata (Anabeta) Reservoir Old City (Wadi Abu al-Qittayn Cistern City)
Hellenistic to Byzantine 250 BCE–450 CE · Hellenistic Balqa then Roman Decapolis chora
Walled twin cisterns 22×12×6 m 2,800 m³ with 420-m channel + 18 m dam closing gully — Hellenistic cistern-city 580×320 m.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Khirbet Iskander
EB III through EB IV/Intermediate Bronze (c.2500–2000 BCE) with EBA predecessor and MB I squatter · EB III Canaanite → EB IV transitional (Intermediate Bronze) highland town
Fortified EB IV town (c.2500–2000 BCE) with double walls — only continuous EBA III→EB IV survival above 4.2kya collapse (Richard).
🇯🇴 Jordan · Rock art
Jebel Qurma Safaitic Rock Art — Black Desert
Hellenistic to Early Islamic (Safaitic literacy 100 BCE–400 CE) · Nomadic Safaitic pastoralists (North Arabian Old Arabic literate nomads)
Harra Black Desert 4500 Safaitic basalt camel–kite petroglyphs 200 BCE–800 CE, Leiden Jebel Qurma project.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient village
Kharaysin
PPNA to Late PPNB (9000–6800 BCE) · Southern Levant PPNA → PPNB (Jericho–Yarmoukian continuum)
25 ha PPN mega-site on Zarqa River with earliest cremation and 6800-seed legume archive.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Kharaysin (Tell Kharaysin)
PPNA to Yarmoukian Pottery Neolithic · PPNA → MPPNB/LPPNB (Zarqa valley) → Yarmoukian
PPNB village (8800–6800 BCE) under Zarqa alluvium — two-storey houses, communal red building and early lentil cultivation, north Levant PPNB seal.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Madaba
Madaba (Arabic: مادبا, romanized: Mādaba or Arabic: مأدبا, romanized: Maʾdaba) is the capital city of Madaba Governorate in central Jordan, with a population of about 60,000.