Madaba Map
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The Madaba Map, also known as the Madaba Mosaic Map, is part of a floor mosaic in the early Byzantine church of Saint George in Madaba, Jordan.
Place of John the Baptist's baptism at the mouth of the Jordan and a (nearly-obliterated) lion hunting a gazelle
Cardo
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A cardo was a north–south street in Ancient Roman cities and military camps as an integral component of city planning. The cardo maximus, or most often the cardo, was the main or central north–south-oriented street.
Roman cardo in Jerash, Jordan
Cardo maximus of Apamea, Syria
Hohe strasse, in Cologne, Germany, was the cardo maximus of the city in Roman times. (Pictured 1895)
Remnants of the cardo of the Old City of Jerusalem