IRBID — Zoara, or modern-day Ghor Safi, was as an important commercial metropolis according to Roman and Byzantine written sources, said a Greek scholar at the 15th International Conference on the History and Archaeology of Jordan held in Irbid last month. The area, situated on the south-eastern Dead Sea littoral near the... read full story
"The area was rich with copper ore, salt, bitumen and sulphur. During the early Byzantine period [4th-7th centuries AD], it was the Seat of a bishop in Palaestina Tertia represented at the Nicaean Councils,"