was most likely the capital of the Assyrian province of Karnini and the Karnajim of the Bible Besides Damascus and Haurini (the Hauran), Karnini was one of the three regions ...

,developed from the apostolic communities of the 2nd century very numerous to important dioceses in today's Jordan and Syria. The literature points to the immense density of dioceses in Hauran ...

Tell al Ashari located on the slopes of the Yarmuk valley, and is identified on the basis of a few archaeological finds with the Dion of the Decapolis. The tell ...

, was a diocese of the province Arabia and belonged to the archdiocese of Bostra. Rihab Luftbild einer Kirchenruine mit zahlreichen Mosaiken / Apaame The name already describes an "interposed or lying ...

, was also called Sennabris by Josephus. The ancient predecessor settlements and also the common names today bears the name Khirbet el Kerak, Bet Yerah (House of the Moon). In many ...

Where was the Raphana of the Decapolis located? Raphana, which is mentioned only once in connection with the Decapolis (by Pliny), is searched by different researchers at completely different places. ...

, is this also the episcopal city of Chrysopolis in Arabia? For this statement, I would like to cite some evidence which, of course, must conform with the archaeological findings and ...

Until November 2009, only one aqueduct bridge was known. In the summer months of 2009, in order to secure the new tourist building, an excavation was carried out by the Dept. of ...

A reconstruction of the bridge over the Zedi east of Deraa from northwest. The basis for this were the sketches made by G. Schumacher (1898, Der südliche Basan) and the r...

which is the only wadi of the Qanat Fir'aun still existing in parts. Within the search for the aqueduct route of the Qanat Fir'aun, I was able to develop, in ...

in the village of Abou el Qantara, between Muzeirib in the north and At Turra in the south. The Wadi passes a plain which is mentioned as the Medan plain ...

About 55m south of the dugged geological trench researched by B. Lucke, in the Wadi Queilbeh the tunnel of the Qanat Fir'aun emerges for the first time at the daylight ...

Kanatir fok Kanatir, this is how Consul Wetzstein was explained that such a special contoured bridge crosses the Wadi esh Shellale. This is Arabic and means, arch over arch (unfortunately ...

was a side channel to supply a nymphaeum and the highest areas of the city. The about 4km long side line went to the ancient Adraha, with its highest part ...

is traversed by the aqueduct tunnel to 7.5km in length. This corresponded to around 150 construction shafts in the tunnel area. This Section starts as a ground-level canal about 1m below ...

, or Khirbet er Rahub on the Muallaqat he Rahub Already S.Mittmann wrote in his book about Northern Jordan, that for a temporal allocation of the plateau the usual methods ...

with a diameter of approximately 21m, it has the largest construction shaft of the entire aqueduct route. Located between Wadi Defur and Wadi Ain et Turab, this section of the ...

G. Schuhmacher and others described another water supply system. Those water channels are also known as Qanat Fir'aun. Undoubtly, those channels form an independent system, which was presumably built in ...

starting at the source Ain et Turab; here already start the inconsistencies. Whereas in the first maps of the European travelers, as well as in their literature, the source springs ...

of the Qanat Fir'aun ran over the jisr el mesari. and what was previously meaningless without knowledge of the place now seems important: G. Schumacher writes "and descends over the ...

When Ullrich Jasper Seetzen visited Dilli on 18 December 1805, it was uninhabited. Already in the old literature of the 19th century Dilli, or the swamps at Dilli is named as the ...

Between the reservoir at Dilli and the bridge over Wadi Ezra, the aqueduct ran along the contour lines of the terrain. Comparing the remaining fragments from old maps and the ...

west of Dera'a, the Qanat Fir'aun already ran into a tunnel. According to Consul Wetzstein, a bridge crossed the Wadi ez Zedi on a single bold arch. The statement "45 minutes ...

The "Limitatio" of the Qanat Fir'aun, has required a detailed knowledge of the area, excellent knowledge of planar and sphaeric geometry, as well as the most up-to-date surveying equipement and ...

G. Schumacher described such a point in his book "Across the Jordan" During the study of ancient literature on the region and of the aqueduct, I found such a hint ...

, new theses and their justification, as well as new and previously unpublished research results can be shown here as a Collection. These contents refer to both the Qanat Fir'aun, the ...

The Region of the Ten Cities in today's Syria, Jordan and Israel were merged according to the current state of knowledge, at the latest around 63 BC., from the Hellenistic Cities ...