Jebel Qurma 2022-2023

Abstract

In 2022–2023, the Jebel Qurma Archaeological Landscape Project continued its excavations of burial cairns in the rugged, basalt-strewn Jebel Qurma region, located east of Azraq in Jordan’s northeastern “Black Desert.” Although pre-Islamic tombs occur in the basaltic uplands in large numbers, these graves of different shape, size, type, and construction have rarely been investigated comprehensively. Our project explicitly focuses on the exploration of the many tombs and their development through time.