Archaeological sites in the Mafraq Governorate

Archaeological sites in the Mafraq Governorate:
Archaeological sites are currently in the governorate of Mafraq major contributor of tourism in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Mafraq Governorate, where is rich in archaeological sites dating back to different eras in addition to that there are promising areas in the province have not been discovered yet



1 - or beauty: beauty or town is located to the east of Mafraq Governorate, about fifteen kilometers and has its roots in the town or settlement beauty to the period since Nabatiyah the first century BC. M until the Mamluk period of the Islamic
Was known by this name as a result of the Commerce site, which used a desert beauty Kqual malls in the process of transport and trade
Do's archaeological and revealed a set of ancient dams designed to collect water or to convert it to storage tanks distributed in the ancient city which is designed to collect water or to convert it to storage tanks distributed in the ancient city and around the Nabataean writings revealed some large stones and an altar in writing Nabataean and found a large number of tombs inscribed with the names of their respective owners



Monuments in or beauty:
1 - Rest Nabatiyah and the headquarters of the ruling of the administrative and the town walls and gates.
2 - Byzantine churches.
3 - pools of water and water collection tanks and open-roofed and carved in the rock basalt.
4 - cemeteries outside the walls of the ancient town.
5 - the military barracks.


Is testimony to the creativity of the people or beauty:
1 - the implementation of water policy by the minute they could benefit from rain water collected and stored and set up a number of ponds.
2 - architectural excellence, and appears in the construction of the city in terms of:
A - the use of brackets in the roof construction.
B - the use of stone tablets in the overlapping roof construction.
C - the use of stone tablets doors of houses.


2 - Java::: of the most important archaeological sites dating back to the early Bronze Ages, was built in the fourth millennium BC. Q. On a hill overlooking the valley in the depths of Rajel free basalt (area in the northern desert to the east of Mafraq)
The area has a spring called Ain Java.
Among the most important monuments royal palace in the center of the city and the region is water harvesting system, which is one of the oldest systems in the world, and established one of the oldest dam dam in the world in this site to collect rain water and return to about the fourth millennium BC. M




3 - Palace burqa:: roots in the settlement to the Neolithic period and took a military dimension in the Roman era and the religious dimension in the Byzantine era. In the period the Arab-Islamic (Umayyad) have been built this palace for recreation and fishing, and away from noise of cities, At the palace, a mosque, bath houses, has been used as a way station on the path of pilgrimage until the eighth century, At the palace mosque to the Umayyad period.





4 - Alfdin:: important archaeological sites in the province, built by the Greeks and was an important city in the Byzantine era in the Islamic era, where she was on the pilgrimage route, also played an important role in the Ottoman Empire for the passage of railway near the most important monuments in this site Umayyad mosque built in an artistic way architectural interest. The significance of the existence of the site where the castle known as Castle Alfdin, built in the early Ottoman period.




5 - Rehab:: The town of Rihab, 12 km from the city of Mafraq, rising about (915) meters above sea level and the archaeological history of the region back to the Stone Age and notorious as well as churches to cemeteries, ponds, wells, water harvesting and the mosque, towers and houses and caves