Tall Hisban Highlights

View Madaba, Mt. Nebo, the Jordan Valley, and the plains of Moab

On a clear day, see the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem

Experience what a typical archaeological tall is like

 

Enter a residential cave complete with Roman arches, columns and cisterns

See the east wall of a massive Iron Age water reservoir

See the northeast corner tower of the Ammonite citadel in Hisban

Follow the perimeter walls of what may have been a Hellenistic farm estate

Get an idea of what a small-town Roman stairway and acropolis might have looked like

Spy the remains of the north wall of a Roman public building, likely a temple

Walk inside the nave of a typical small town Byzantine basilica

Inspect the anteroom, steam room and hot-water oven of a small Early Islamic bath

Tour the official residence of a Mamluk appointed governor of this region

View the remains of an Ottoman cave village along the slope of Wadi Majaar

Get an idea of the process of settlement of the present-day village of Hisban

Contemplate biblical stories linked to this site (Num 21:21-31; Songs 7:4)

Try to figure out what additions Herod the Great made to this summit

Try to figure out the path of the Via Nova Traiana which included Esbous
   (Roman Hisban) as a way-station;

Picture what a worship service might have been like in the Byzantine basilica;

Imagine what it would be like to take a steam bath in the Early Islamic hammam;

Envision where Saladin might have camped during his visit to this site;

Visualize Mamluk horsemen sallying forth from Hisban to fight the Crusaders;

Think about the succession of imperial world-making projects in this area by the
   Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Umayyads,
   Abbasids, Seljuks, Ayyubids, Mamluks, Ottomans, and British.

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