Photo: Visitors walk back from a stroll on a colonnaded oval forum behind them in the ruins of an ancient city. The visitors still in the forum provide a sense of scale for just how huge those columns stand. It is a cloudless day. They're wearing hats for shade. Blue jeans for comfort. The columns that ring the forum are a pale yellow limestone, with Ionic capitals, still lifting their Architraves. Behind the forum, is a tree-covered hill, and beyond that, the modern city of Jerash with a population of about 50,000+. Humans have lived in this area since at least 7500 BCE (about 2000 years before the universe existed, if you were homeschooled with most Christian curricula). The Greeks built Gerasa here around 331 BCE. The Judeans captured it around 80 BCE. But by 60 BCE, the Romans had it. Then the Byzantine Empire took over, and they were defeated by the Rashidun Caliphate and it became Jerash, later it ended up in the Umayyad Caliphate, and so on. Jerash Archaeological Park. Jerash, Jordan April 2012 D5100: ƒ/10, 1/400, 26mm, ISO125

The Oval Forum
The colonnaded oval forum at the
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April 2012
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