Arid Lands Newsletter--link to home page No. 44, Fall/Winter 1998
Conflict Resolution and Transboundary Water Resources

Openness and river basin institutions: Jerusalem Mosaic

This image of a bridge across the Jordan River is part of the "Jerusalem Mosaic" located in a church in Madaba, Jordan. The oldest extant map of the Holy Land, details of buildings in the city of Jerusalem have enabled scholars to date the map to between 560 C.E. and 565 C.E. Madaba, Jordan, historic mosaic of Jordan River bridge

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