| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Mount Nebo
Site / Event : Moses Memorial Church
|
 |
Memorial for the visit of Pope John Paul II.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Mount Nebo
|
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The road descending from Mount Nebo to the Jordan Valley.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Mount Nebo
|
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Desolate landscape near Mount Nebo.
|
1986 |
| Jordan |
City / Town : Mount Nebo
|
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View from Mount Nebo.
|
1986 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
|
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Sand dunes.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Kharana
|
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Qasr Kharana is a khan (inn) built by the Ummayads.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Kharana
|
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Qasr Kharana is made of sandstone.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Kharana
|
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The building was built in 710 making it the oldest khan in the Islamic world.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Kharana
|
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The interior courtyard.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Kharana
|
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Rooms arranged around a central courtyard on two levels.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Kharana
|
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Narrow doorway.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Kharana
|
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Upper hallway.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Kharana
|
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View of the khan.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
|
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Flat landscape.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
|
 |
View of the desert.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qusayr Amra
|
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Qusayr Amra dates from 711.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qusayr Amra
|
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Qusayr Amra is a UNESCO World Heritage bath house.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qusayr Amra
|
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The second building houses the well.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qusayr Amra
|
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The well.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qusayr Amra
|
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The Audience Hall is the largest chamber, used for parties and meals.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qusayr Amra
|
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Fresco of a man slaughtering a cow for food.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qusayr Amra
|
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The ceiling frescos show the crafts needed to build the bath house.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qusayr Amra
|
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Fresco of wrestlers.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qusayr Amra
|
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These early Islamic frescos are different to the later geometric Islamic art.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qusayr Amra
|
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Musician.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qusayr Amra
|
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Dancer.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qusayr Amra
|
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Fresco of warriors.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qusayr Amra
|
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The Audience Hall has some of the earliest known Islamic art which features human forms.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qusayr Amra
|
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A pack of dogs chasing a gazelle.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qusayr Amra
|
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A woman bathing.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qusayr Amra
|
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The Caliph surrounded by Byzantine, Visigoth and Persian leaders.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qusayr Amra
|
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Naked figures in the changing room.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qusayr Amra
|
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Faces and animals on the ceiling in the changing room.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qusayr Amra
|
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Bear playing a lute.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qusayr Amra
|
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Deer.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qusayr Amra
|
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Man with staff.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qusayr Amra
|
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Dancing woman.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qusayr Amra
|
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Woman bathing a child in the Tepidarium (warm water room).
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qusayr Amra
|
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The Calidarium (hot water room).
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qusayr Amra
|
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Drainage.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qusayr Amra
|
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The dome has a map of the Northern sky which is one of the earliest depictions of the sky on a curved surface.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qusayr Amra
|
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Ophiuchus and Sagittarius.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qusayr Amra
|
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The Great Bear, Cassiopia and Andromeda.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
|
 |
Gravelly desert.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
|
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Camels in the Jordanian desert.
|
1986 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
|
 |
Mirrage and dust devils.
|
1986 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
|
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The oasis near Azrak.
|
1986 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Azrak
|
 |
Qasr (Castle) Azrak.
|
1986 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Azrak
|
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The fortress dates from Roman times (c211).
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Azrak
|
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The fortress is made from black basalt.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Azrak
|
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The entrance.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Azrak
|
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The fortress was rebuilt by the Arabs in the 13th century.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Azrak
|
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The doors are made from a single piece of basalt.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Azrak
|
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Indentations used for a game that used small stones.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Azrak
|
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View from the entrance.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Azrak
|
 |
The castle was used by T E Lawrence (of Arabia) as his base during World War 1.
|
1986 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Azrak
|
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The quarters of T E lawrence were above the entrance.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Azrak
|
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The isolated building was originally a Byzantine church and later became a mosque.
|
1986 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Azrak
|
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The mosque dates from the Ayyubid period (early 13th century).
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Azrak
|
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The mihrab (prayer niche) in the mosque.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Azrak
|
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The walls.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Azrak
|
 |
Visitor.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Azrak
|
 |
The walls and corner bastion.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Azrak
|
 |
Much of the castle is in ruins.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Azrak
|
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Prison.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Azrak
|
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Basalt lintels.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Azrak
|
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Kitchen area.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Azrak
|
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Kitchen items.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Azrak
|
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Sherif Hussein bin Ali used the fort for the Arab Revolt against Ottoman rule.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Azrak
|
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Reliefs from the Roman period.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Azrak
|
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Living quarters.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Azrak
|
 |
The interior.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Eastern Desert
Site / Event : Qasr Azrak
|
 |
Door made from a single piece of basalt and described in "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom" by T E Lawrence.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Desert Highway
|
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Desert hills.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Desert Highway
|
 |
Abandoned buildings.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Desert Highway
|
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Beduin settlement.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Desert Highway
|
 |
View of the desert.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Desert Highway
|
 |
The Hejaz Railway.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Desert Highway
|
 |
Desert landscape.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Desert Highway
|
 |
Beduin encampment.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Desert Highway
|
 |
Dirt road.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Desert Highway
|
 |
The Desert Highway in the south.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Desert Highway
|
 |
Distant hills.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Desert Highway
|
 |
Yellow landscape.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Desert Highway
|
 |
Dramatic rock formations.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Desert Highway
|
 |
Grazing camel.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Desert Highway
|
 |
The Desert Highway near Wadi Rum.
|
2019 |
| Jordan |
Region : Kings Highway
|
 |
The King's Highway runs North-South through spectacular desert scenery.
|
1986 |
| Jordan |
Region : Kings Highway
|
 |
The King's Highway crosses several deep gorges.
|
1986 |
| Jordan |
Region : Kings Highway
District : Wadi El Hasa
|
 |
Wadi El Hasa is one of several gorges crossed by the highway.
|
1986 |
| Jordan |
Region : Kings Highway
District : Wadi El Hasa
|
 |
Wadi El Hasa separates the Biblical lands of the Moabites and the Edomites.
|
1986 |
| Jordan |
Region : Kings Highway
District : Wadi El Hasa
|
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The oasis on the valley floor.
|
1986 |
| Jordan |
Region : Kings Highway
District : Wadi El Hasa
|
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Small settlement.
|
1986 |
| Jordan |
Region : Kings Highway
|
 |
The village of Tafila is set in an oasis.
|
1986 |
| Jordan |
Region : Kings Highway
|
 |
Scattered trees in the desert landscape.
|
1986 |
| Jordan |
Region : Kings Highway
|
 |
Fertile shelf.
|
1986 |
| Jordan |
Region : Kings Highway
|
 |
Donkey in the desert.
|
1986 |
| Jordan |
Region : Kings Highway
District : Wadi Mujib
|
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Wadi Mujib.
|
1986 |
| Jordan |
Region : Kings Highway
District : Wadi Mujib
|
 |
Wadi Mujib separates the Biblical lands of the Moabites and the Amonites.
|
1986 |
| Jordan |
Region : Kings Highway
District : Wadi Mujib
|
 |
Wadi Mujib is 1000m deep.
|
1986 |
were added from 1 February 2025.