Jordan - Day 2

Day two began with a trip to Tyre, to the land of Tobiah. We went to a site that had a series of tombs from the family of Tobiah. The inscription was what told us who would have been buried there. People probably used this tombs to live in before building the village just down below. We also visited the palace just down the road. The day was also spent at Jerash and ended at the archeology museum and the citidel of Amman.

The Tobiah family tomb

The palace in Tyre - land of Tobiah - The word Tobiah speaks about the goodness of the land (the land of Tov - which is good in Hebrew) and is mentioned throughout scripture as a strong land and family group.

There were local beduoin kids hanging out at the palace site. They would hand us little pieces of fruit from the trees nearby and then ask us for money. We quickly learned not to take the fruit from the kids...although they were pretty cute in the process.

A local man and his grandson

The Jabbok river - the river would have seen Jacob's travels to meet up with Esau. Jacob may have been next to this river when experiencing the "wrestling" episode in Genesis.

The theater at Jerash - there were two local guys playing the bagpipes and thr drums...it was pretty funny. One of our classmates Aubrey is a trained opera singer and sang for us as well....the acoustics were amazing!

The main cardo in Jerash - the city of a thousand columns

These columns have survived earthquakes and were built to survive other natural disasters as well...they were quite amazing and it was quite a feat to build them

Part of the temple to Artemis and the nymph gods - this was clearly a Greco-Roman city

Anna and I in front of the biggest flag in the world - of course, it is a Jordan flag and is very far away in this picture!