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Amman Antiochus appear Arabia Arabs Assyria beautiful became brought buildings built called capital Castle century CHAPTER Christian columns connected course Crusaders Dead Sea death Decapolis early east eastern Egypt empire feet followed fortress four gate Gerasa give given Greek hand Herod hill houses hundred idea important influence interesting Jerash Jerusalem Jordan Kerak King land leading leave lived look lower Moslem Nabatean nature never once original palace Palestine passed perhaps period Persian Petra Philadelphia probably Ptolemy received remains river road rock Roman Rome round ruins runs says seems seen sent shows side standing stone stood story street suggested Syria taken temple theatre things thousand tombs took towers town usual valley walls whole wild writes