Jordan Field School Trips
Here are some of the places you will visit!
The Sikh-Entrance to Petra
- Walking tour of Madaba
- Mosiac church in Madaba
- Amman
- Baq’ah Valley
- Dhiban
- Khirbet Ataruz
- Sunset excursion to Mt. Nebo
- Machaerus Fortress
- Umm er-Rasas
Night View of Amman (PC: Marc Ullom)
- Ajlun
- al Kerak Castle
- Gadara
- Jerash
- Jordan Valley
- Pella
- Tell Deir ‘Allah
- Wild Jordan
- Zarqa (Jabbok) River
Part of the Madaba Map (PC: Berthold Werner)
- Amman Citadel, Roman Theatre
- Tall al ‘Umayri
- Tall Jalul
- Dead Sea
- The Jordan River Baptism Site
- Bethany beyond Jordan
- Hejaz Railway
- Shobak Castle
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Wadi Mujib (PC: Berthold Werner)
- Edom
- Wadi Musa
- Little Petra
- Petra Archaeological Park Tour
- King’s Highway
- Moab
- Wadi Mujib (Arnon River)
- Khirbat Iskander
Optional Jerusalem Tour
Old City, Jerusalem (PC: Nettadi)
Old City and East Jerusalem, Garden Tomb, Jaffa Gate, the Citadel, Holy Sepulchre Church, Christian Quarter Road, Mt. Zion, the Upper Room, David’s Tomb, House of Caiaphas, Mount of Olives overlook of the city; Garden of Gethsemane, Via Delarosa, City of David, Hezekiah’s Tunnel, Pool of Siloam, Evening in West Jerusalem.
Optional trip to Bethlehem.
[i] The Jordan Field School (JFS) Hisban Excavations is a collaborative undertaking organized by Andrews University’s Institute of Archaeology and College of Arts and Sciences in cooperation with the Department of Antiquities of Jordan; the Municipality of Hisban; the American Center for Oriental Research (ACOR); the German-Jordanian University; the Madaba Plains Project; Missouri State University; the University of Bonn and the University of Oslo. Senior director of the JFS is Professor Oystein S. LaBianca (Andrews); Director of the Hisban Excavations is Professor Bethany Walker (Missouri State); Ms Maria Elena Ronza is Director of the Hisban Cultural Heritage Project and Administrative Director for JFS and Hisban Excavations.