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Deir Alla

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Deir Alla

Deir Alla is the site of an ancient Near Eastern town in Balqa Governorate. It was the first Bronze Age city excavated in Jordan. The initial expectations were of establishing a relative chronology of Palestine pottery in the transition between the Bronze Age to the Iron Age.