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Jerash Archaeological Site

Jerash Archaeological Site

Also known as جرش

Year

100

Style

Roman

Type

landscape

Jerash is the ruined Greco-Roman city of Gerasa in northern Jordan, one of the best-preserved Roman provincial cities of the eastern Mediterranean and the most legible Decapolis site in the country. The walled archaeological city was…

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Jerash Archaeological Site
Jerash Archaeological Site
Jerash Archaeological Site
Jerash Archaeological Site

Timeline

  1. 129-130

    Addition

    Hadrian's Arch was built south of the city for the emperor's visit in 129 or 130 AD.

  2. 400-700

    Rebuild

    Late antique and early Islamic occupation reused parts of the city's Roman civic and religious fabric.

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