Central Settlement
Tall Zira'a offers the unique possibility of excavating a stratigraphical sequence from the Early Bronze Age (3200 BCE) to 1900 AD in northern Jordan. For the Bronze and Iron Ages, the outstanding finds show exemplarily the cultural influences and changes in a contact zone between the historical 'global players' Egypt, Syria, and Mesopotamia.
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