For many tourists, the visit to the ancient city in southwest Jordan ends here ... photograph by Annie Griffiths, National Geographic Byzantine floor mosaics are found in the remains of the ...

This story appears in the April 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. For a biblical stream whose name evokes divine tranquillity, the Jordan River is nobody's idea of peace on Earth.

Jordan Friedman is a New York-based freelance writer and journalist who specializes in history. His work has appeared in ...

Meanwhile, 30 miles south of the Dead Sea in Jordan, a University of California ... both of whom have been awarded grants by the National Geographic Society—support their contentions with ...

Twenty-five years ago, National Geographic Explorer Mei Zhang met Tibetan ... For nomadic Bedouin communities in Jordan and Egypt, meanwhile, guiding visitors on the ancient trails draws on ...

If you’ve never been to the Middle East, Amman (and Jordan as a whole) is your perfect introduction. Not only was Amman a central crossing point of and the birthplace of several great ...

Kathleen Deagan, a professor of archaeology at the University of Florida in Gainesville and a National Geographic Society ... of the Monastery at Petra, Jordan, shows the enormity of the ancient ...