Madaba: the mosaic map

763 m above sea level

In the Bible

Medeba is named in an old song of Heshbon's defeat, and among the lands of the plateau given to the tribes east of the Jordan.

Num 21:30But we have overthrown them; Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon. We demolished them as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.”

Josh 13:9The area from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the middle of the valley, the whole plateau of Medeba as far as Dibon,

Here today

In the floor of St George's church, a 6th-century mosaic map from the Jordan to the Nile, with Jerusalem's streets and the Holy Sepulchre; rediscovered in 1884.

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