Jerash : Pompeii of the east / by Julia Cave.
Jerash (Jarash), founded in the 3rd century BC as a Greek settlement, was one of the ten cities of the Decapolis. In the 8th century it was destroyed in a series of earthquakes and, after being abandoned, disappeared from history for almost a thousand years. In 1806 a German archaeologist stumbled u...
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