November 12, 2024 – Day 15
Today we walked through the streets of Amman, Jordan on our way to the Roman Theater. A 6000 seat 2nd century theater. A famous landmark in the Jordanian capital, it dates back the Roman period with the city was known as Philadelphia. The theater and the nearby Odeon Theater are flanking the new Hashemite Plaza. Our crazy travel family enjoyed imagining that we were emperors and empresses orating the news to our people! Or just taking a breather and enjoying the sight.
Next we traveled to the Amman Citadel, considered to be among the world’s oldest continuously inhabited places. Specifically a fortified hill on the highest of Amman’s seven hills. Evidence of inhabitance since the Neolithic period has been found. The hill was fortified during the Bronze Age (1800 BCE). The Hill became the capital of the Kingdom of Amman, sometime after 1200 BCE.
This is a piece of a statue that once stood here. Can you imagine the size of this statue if just part of the hand is this big? Several pieces remained in the courtyard of the Citadel.
Our travel family !
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