Video: The Citadel Mountain in Amman... a witness to civilizations

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">ArabiaWeather.com - Jabal Al-Qal&#39;a is one of the seven mountains of the city of Amman, which the Ammonites made since ancient times the seat of their rule in the city, and after them the Greeks, Romans and Byzantines who occupied the city respectively until the Islamic conquest in the seventh century AD, when the palace was built on its summit Umayyad.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height:1.6em">The Citadel Mountain emerged in Amman, the seat of the capital of the Ammonites, and the remains of the Ammonites&#39; palaces are still present in it, including the walls of the walls and the wells dug in the limestone rock.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height:1.6em">Also, four statues of the Ammonite kings dating back to the eighth century BC were found on the Citadel Mountain. In the Citadel Mountain, Roman Corinthian monuments and columns and a temple of Hercules were also found.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="line-height:1.6em">The mountain contains Islamic antiquities dating back to the Umayyad era, where the Umayyad palace is there. In addition, there is the Jordanian Archaeological Museum on the top of the mountain that simulates the history of Jordan in general and Amman in particular.</span></p>