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| Jerash: the ancient city of is remarkable for its unbroken chain of human occupation. Here at a well-watered site in the hills of Gilead, you find remains from Neolithic times, as well as Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Omayyad and others. Jerash’s golden age, however, arrived with Roman rule. | ||||
| Today it is acknowledged as one of the best preserved Roman provincial towns in the world. Jerash was a member of the Decapolis, a dynamic commercial league of ten Graeco-Roman cities. When Emperor Hadrian visited Jerash in AD 129, it was already thriving. To honour its guest, the city raised a Triumphal Arch, just one part of a massive building program. Today you can wolk beneath four imposing gates, or make your way down the "Street of Columns" – the Roman Cardo – running 600 meters north from the Oval Plaza. As you step over the tracks of chariot wheels still visible in the paving stones, imagine prosperous citizens window-shopping beneath a covered sidewalk. Jerash was an open city of free-standing structures richly embellished with marble and granite. Its engineering was advance that large parts of city still survive today. Much has been painstakingly restored by archaeological teams from around the world.."" |
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