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🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Roman Imperial (1st–3rd c. CE) · Decapolis Greco-Roman city league (Gadara, Adraa, Abila)
Hadrianic 170-km 94%-underground qanat from Daraa to Gadara, longest tunnel aqueduct antiquity.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city
Natufian to Byzantine (c. 10000 BCE – 749 CE) · Natufian / Chalcolithic / Canaanite / Hellenistic Decapolis / Roman / Byzantine
Decapolis wadi harbour city – revetment 30 m at –1 m in Wadi Jirm below escarpment terraces.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Tell
Late Neolithic through Byzantine–Islamic (c.5500 BCE–749 CE); Neolithic, EBA–MB–LB, Iron I–II, Hellenistic–Roman–Byzantine · Neolithic → Canaanite (MBA–LBA) → Iron Ammonite → Decapolis Hellenistic–Roman → Byzantine → Early Islamic
Jordan Valley gateway — MBA Canaanite town to Decapolis Pella (6000-yr, 10 ha + 30 ha lower city) with 635 CE Yarmuk layer.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Ancient city
Hellenistic to Early Islamic (c.332 BCE–749 CE, peak 1st–3rd c CE) · Graeco-Roman / Nabataean / Byzantine / Umayyad
One of the best-preserved Greco-Roman cities in the Near East, Gerasa was a Decapolis city with colonnaded cardo, two tetrapylons, Hadrian's Arch (129 CE), Oval Plaza, Temple of Artemis and Temple of…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Hydraulic works
Roman Hadrianic (129 – 130 CE) with Byzantine reuse · Roman Gerasene Gerasa Decapolis under Hadrian
9 km Hadrianic Ceys Channel 130 CE to Gerasa reservoir above Cardo at 610 m.
