Recently we took a trip to the ruins of the Roman city of Pella, known as Tabaqat Fahl in Arabic. Located in northwest Jordan in the Jordan Valley near the Jordan River, about an hour from Amman, Pella is situated in one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world, as it has a Canaanite temple and is mentioned in Egyptian inscriptions as far back as the 19th century BC. In Roman times it was one of the 10 cities of the Decapolis--along with what is now Amman--which were important cities grouped together because of certain similarities in language, culture, location and political status. It has one of the earliest Christian churches discovered, and was also where many Christians from Jerusalem fled during the Jewish-Roman wars of the 1st century AD. Below are some pictures from our day.
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