Jordan / Israel / Palestine: Detail of the Madaba Mosaic Map showing Old Jerusalem protected by oval-shaped city walls. Church of St George, Madaba,6th century CE. Photo by Berthold Werner (CC BY 3.0)
Jordan / Israel / Palestine: Detail of the Madaba Mosaic Map showing Old Jerusalem protected by oval-shaped city walls. Church of St George, Madaba,6th century CE. Photo by Berthold Werner (CC BY 3.0)
The Madaba Map (also known as the Madaba Mosaic Map) is part of a floor mosaic in the early Byzantine church of Saint George at Madaba, Jordan. The Madaba Map is a map of the Middle East. Part of it contains the oldest surviving original cartographic depiction of the Holy Land and especially Jerusalem. It dates to the 6th century CE.
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