This site was mentioned by Josephus in his book The War of the Jews (Jewish war 1:21:9), and also mentioned by some of the early Church Fathers. It was built…
This site dates back to the incident mentioned in the Bible, Numbers (21: 6-9), when God sent snakes upon the children of Israel because of their complaints, and then Moses…
It is the northern desert region of Wadi Araba, i.e. south of the Dead Sea.
The location was unknown before the Madaba map, and in 1983 it was discovered by [H. Donner EA. Knauf and] where the remains of a Byzantine church were found with…
It is mentioned in the Bible several times and also in many Greek, Latin, Hebrew and Arabic manuscripts. During the Byzantine period, Zoar was a medium-sized administrative city and the…
The Dead Sea was mentioned by Bishop Eusebius (Eus.On 100:4-5) (3rd century AD) and is clearly much larger on the Madaba map than it is today (2024 AD). Even the…