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Madaba

Midda
Jordan100 BCE700 CEHellenistic — Byzantine31.72, 35.80
About the site

Famous for the Madaba Map, a 6th-century mosaic map of the Holy Land. It was a significant Christian city in the Byzantine period and later a center for the Greek Orthodox Church.

Principal findings
  • iThe Madaba Map in St. George's Church
  • iiNumerous Byzantine church mosaics
  • iiiRemains of a Roman bathhouse
  • ivInscriptions in Greek and Arabic

Excavators — Father Kleopas Koikylides