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Vinony catalogs Umm ar-Rasas in its UNESCO World Heritage collection (3,378 entries).
Vinony's link graph records 122 inbound references to Umm ar-Rasas, and connects out to World Heritage Site, Qasr Amra and Jordan.
The entry is geolocated on the map in MN.
Vinony files it under Archaeological sites in Jordan, Protected areas established in 2004 and Tourism in Jordan.
Key facts
- Location
- Amman Governorate , Jordan
- Built
- 5th Century
- Governing body
- Ministry of Tourism & Antiquities of Jordan
- Type
- Cultural
- Criteria
- i, iv, vi
- Designated
- 2004 (28th session )
- Region
- Arab States
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Wikidata facts
- Area
- 90
- Image
- Umm Rasas House ruins.JPG
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- Commons category
- Umm ar-Rasas
- native label
- أم الرصاص
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Encyclopedic overview
Ruins of a house from Umm Ar-Rasas. Umm ar-Rasas (Arabic: أم الرّصاص; ancient name: Kastron Mefa'a) is located 30 km southeast of Madaba in the Amman Governorate in central Jordan. It was once accessible by branches of the King's Highway, and is situated in the semi-arid steppe region of the Jordanian Desert. The site has been associated with the biblical settlement of Mephaat mentioned in the Book of Jeremiah. The Roman military utilized the site as a strategic garrison, but it was later converted and inhabited by Christian and Islamic communities. In 2004, the site was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and is valued by archaeologists for its extensive ruins dating to the Roman, Byzantine, and early Muslim periods. The Franciscan academic society in Jerusalem, Studium Biblicum Franciscanum (SBF), carried out excavations at the north end of the site in 1986, but much of the area remains buried under debris.
Early history
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Umm ar-Rasas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.