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Background music playing. So another new country for us. Today we are
in Jordan. We just landed in Amman yesterday and this morning we are exploring the Ancient
city of Jerash and now this is a Greco-Roman city so it belonged to the Greeks then it
was converted by the Romans and the architecture was slighted changed so we're going to be
showing you some of that. Music playing.
Drums and Bagpipes. Background music playing.
So this is a Roman planned theater. When in use it could sit up to three thousand people
and it was used for all kinds of performances. Background music playing.
Meow. Meow.
Background music playing. We're now at the temple of Artemis the Goddess
of the Sea. Background music playing.
So with the wall we were looking at just behind the olive press you can track the three different
civilizations because at the very bottom you have the Greek blocks which were all different
sizes and didn't really match. Then you can see the Roman style which were the big blocks
of limestone and then at the very top there were smaller blocks which were placed by an
Islamic culture. Background music playing.
This particular section was only uncovered in the 1970's. Prior to that it was underground.
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