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plain by which we had approached this spot from the north". Buckingham noted that the site was divided by an area empty of structure into eastern and western sections containing numerous ruins mostly characterized by columns, piles of large hewn stones and a few cisterns, grottoes, tombs, and sarcophagi "exhibiting a melancholy example of the wreck of former opulence and power".
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during his visits to the area in 1816. He reported that it was the largest site he had seen in
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Ruins at Jalul were reported by several 19th-century explorers. Jalul was mentioned as a ruined site north of Madaba by the German explorer Ulrich
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on behalf of the sites' Bedouin owners by the paramount leader of the Beni Sakhr, Sattam ibn Fayiz, from his father-in-law Ali Dhiyab, the paramount leader of the
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Project and Andrews University. He noted that it was "a major site" of ruins, including "walls preserved above the door lintels and arches still intact".
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began in 1992 after permission was granted by Jordan's
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