Amman, Jordan
Sunday, November 13, 2011
here!!
Arrived in the Queen Alia International Airport and booked a 6 night stay at the Arena Space Hotel. It's only $430.90 (or 301.94 Jordanian Dinar) for 6 nights and is only 12.4 miles from the airport so my cab was very cheap. That was a verrrry long flight but I actually spent alot of it researching some history about Amman. I found out that Amman has been inhabited by several civilizations. The first civilization on record is during the Neolithic period, when archaeological discoveries in 'ain ghazal, located in eastern Amman, showed evidence of not only a settled life but also the growth of artistic work, which means that a well-developed civilization inhabited the city at that time. In the 13th century BC Amman was called Rabbath Ammon by the Ammonites. Eventually after the Egyptians, Persians, and Assyrians took control of the civilization the Romans took it over, but it was during the Ghassanian ear that the city took the name Amman from the previous title of Philidelphia. The city was actually destroyed by earthquakes several times.
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