Um Qais: a spectacular site from the Greek-Roman time Gedara north of Jordan. Jerash: the best-preserved Roman city outside of Italy, with an unbroken chain of human occupation dating back more than 6,500 years.
Um Qais: home of several poets and philosophers, and the place where Jesus cast out the devil from two men into a herd of pigs (Matthew 8: 28-34).
Jerash: hidden for centuries in sand before being excavated and restored over the past 70 years, Jerash reveals a fine example of the grand, formal provincial Roman urbanism that is found throughout the Middle East, comprising paved and colonnaded streets, temples, theatres, public squares and plazas, baths, fountains and city walls pierced by towers and gates.