FLOOR PLAN
Noah’s Ark mosaic puts ancient Jordan synagogue on tourist map
As Arab countries from Bahrain to Morocco reconnect with their Jewish communities, church ruins in Jerash hearken back to biblical flood story
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Jerash's colonnaded roads and arenas are a major tourism draw for Jordan
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JERASH, Jordan – When archeologists first excavated the remnants of a sixth-century church in the ancient city of Jerash in 1929, they uncovered a mosaic floor filled with images of gazelles, horses, birds, rabbits, snakes and other creatures that...