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Inside St George’s
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Madaba is an ancient town that was abandoned for many, many centuries. When it was repopulated in the late 1800s by Christians fleeing communal tensions in nearby Karak, the Ottoman authorities told them that they were free to construct new churches, provided that they built them over the top of existing (abandoned) Christian sites. When they began doing so, they started unearthing all sorts of wonderful mosaics, dating from Roman times to the early Islamic period. Many people building and restoring houses elsewhere in the city also found richly detailed mosaics, and today Madaba is well-known throughout Jordan for its antique tiles.
This is the most famous of all Madaba’s mosaics – it’s a perfectly rendered map of Madaba’s immediate surroundings, made at some stage between 550-600AD, and originally featuring over 2m tiles. However, most of the map is now missing, although nearby Jerusalem (above) is well-preserved. This cartographically accurate depiction of Old Jerusalem has aided archaeologists in the identification of a number of structures there.
Rock Monastery at Göreme
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Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia
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Hidden cave churches in a natural volcanic fairy chimney at Göreme, Open Air Museum, Cappadocia.
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Cappadocia Fairy Chimneys
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Göreme National Park and the Rock Sites of Cappadocia
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Hidden cave churches in a natural volcanic fairy chimney at Göreme, Open Air Museum, Cappadocia.
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