Khirbet edh-Dharih
Preserved Nabataean temple on the King’s Highway. Site of the elaborately carved façade displayed in the Jordan Museum. The village ruins include: pilgrim hostel, residential villa, monumental tomb, Byzantine houses.
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During the Byzantine era, the temple's antechamber became a baptistery. A long lintel, adorned with an incised Greek cross inside a circle, and two rosettes flanking the cross covered the entrance to the sanctuary hall, which was turned into a small church with a raised choir and an apse on the eastern wall.
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Preserved Nabataean temple on the King’s Highway. Site of the elaborately carved façade displayed in the Jordan Museum. The village ruins include: pilgrim hostel, residential villa, monumental tomb, Byzantine houses.