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  • Bab edh-Dhra

    Bab edh-Dhra is an archaeological site located near the Dead Sea in Karak Governorate, Jordan. The site is an Early Bronze Age settlement dating back to the 4th millennium BC. The ruins consist of 2 large cemeteries known as Khirbet Qazone (3300–2000 BC) that include different styles of burials: Shaft tombs, tumulus tombs and charnel houses (rectangular mudbrick burials where human skeletal remains are stored).
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    Bab edh-Dhra
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    Bab edh-Dhra
    by Ana al’ain, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Bab edh-Dhra
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    Bab edh-Dhra

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    Karak Governorate

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    Fourth Millennium BC

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