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Gerasa was inhabited inhabited during the Bronze Age (3200 BC - 1200 BC). However Greeks used to believe that Gerasa was founded by Alexander the Great. Romans annexeted the city and surroundings to the Province Syria.

See:

  1. http://www.art-and-archaeology.com/jordan/jerash/jerash.html
  2. https://www.academia.edu/38576762/Title_page_THE_JARASH_CITY_WALLS_PROJECT._EXCAVATIONS_2001_-2003_FINAL_REPORT_With_a_summary_report_of_The_Jerash_City_Wall_Excavation_2000_JCW00._Tr_Wall_2000
  3. Antioch on the Chrysorrhoas, Formerly Called Gerasa. Perspectives on Biographies of a Place - Achim Lichtenberger https://www.academia.edu/44526007/Antioch_on_the_Chrysorrhoas_Formerly_Called_Gerasa_Perspectives_on_Biographies_of_a_Place

Gerasa (Jerash) was één van de belangrijkste Grieks-Romeinse-Byzantijnse steden in het Midden-Oosten. De stad was één van de Dekapolissteden.

Relevant museums

Archeologisch museum van Amman

Het oude archeologische museum van Jordanië.

Amman, Jordan Museum

The new historical museum of Jordan; substantial archaeological collection.

Nearby

South Tetrapylon, Gerasa

Tetrapylon, Gerasa

Gerasa, Macellum

Gerasa, Macellum

Gerasa (Jerash) - Southern Decumanus

Deumanus i.e. an east-west-oriented road in a Roman city or castra.