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Tagshasmonean
3 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Hydraulic works
Hasmonean to Herodian–Early Roman (100 BCE–70 CE) · Hasmonean / Herodian Judean (Hellenistic–Roman desert court)
20-km Wadi Qelt cliff aqueducts (c.20 BCE) cascading 400 m to irrigate Herod's Jericho oasis palaces and balsam plantations.
🇵🇸 Palestine · Fortress
Hasmonean (c. 130 BCE) + Herodian 30 BCE · Hasmonean / Herodian / Byzantine Laura
Hyrcania excavated by Bar Adon and later, Herod's desert asylum per Josephus with tomb possibility.
🇯🇴 Jordan · Fortress
Hasmonean (90 BCE) rebuilt Herod 30 BCE; Baptist tradition 29 CE · Hasmonean / Nabataean / Herodian
Mukawir excavated by Piccirillo & Virgilio, baptistery cistern and Josephus Ant.18.119 locale.
