History
In 2001, the Gadara Region Project was initiated by Dieter Vieweger of the Biblical Archaeological Institute (BAI) of the University of Wuppertal (Germany). This project has focused on the interdisciplinary investigation of the Wadi al-'Arab south-west of Gadara and the excavation of its most prominent site, Tall Zira'a. The project has been a joint enterprise of the BAI and the German Protestant Institute of Archaeology (GPIA) in Amman since 2004, and the Jerusalem branch of same institute entered the project in 2006. It is jointly directed by Dieter Vieweger and Jutta Häser.
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