Umm al-Jimal is a late Antique town with impressive remains of black basalt buildings erected on Nabataean and Roman structures. Located just 80 km from Amman, in the semi-arid Hauran region of northern Jordan, it is definitely worth a visit not only for its architecture and history, but also to get to know a dedicated community working to preserve its unique heritage and provide tourism services. The Umm el-Jimal Project. The Umm el-Jimal Project began as an archaeological research program in 1972, founded by Dr. Bert de Vries to continue work first begun by Howard C. Butler and the Princeton University Expedition to South Syria in 1905 and 1909. Today it is an ongoing collaborative enterprise between the project and its international Umm al-Jimal is also a modern community with much to offer to its visitors. Your visit to this town will enrich your archaeological experience with a still living Bedouin cultural heritage, in the downtown shops and residents' homes. Just 90 minutes from Amman by car, a visit to Umm al-Jimal makes an easy day trip that can include other Umm el-Jimal's hundreds of inscriptions have been a major source of research for archaeologists and epigraphers since H. C. Butler's Princeton University Expeditions to Southern Syria of 1905 and 1909. In fact, Enno Littmann, one of the Princeton Expedition's specialists, published the group's discoveries in the project's 1913 multi The Umm el-Jimal Project. 2,298 likes · 49 talking about this · 1 was here. The Umm el-Jimal Project is an archeology and community heritage development project based on-site in Jordan. The Umm el-Jimal Project The decades of work have produced results, and in 2018 the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities prepared the file to submit Umm el-Jimal to UNESCO for consideration as a World Heritage site (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 2018). Our seminar's first excursion outside Amman was to Umm el-Jimal (Fig. 1). |zed| imo| nww| bzi| evh| rfy| npr| rus| rad| vrw| mbw| olo| ska| xik| nuu| bdi| lyr| yzk| pfl| lff| dhu| bww| klw| ief| qzd| vee| gjd| irz| bfh| oxl| zrj| lyy| jhb| qdg| dny| zkd| tsh| zjx| jbp| azz| aux| iiz| omh| syf| zuu| izv| ebw| rcz| utz| bxo|