Surviving in some measure until the 12th century CE, this Greco-Roman city is sometimes called the Pompeii of the Middle East. An extensive urban center in its day, Jerash is an amazing site that reveals the sophistication of design and function that belies our prejudice that only moderns are advanced in engineering and design. Sewer systems, shopping complexes, overpasses, they had it all. Makes you wonder what they will be saying about our cities in a thousand years!
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