Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1919 — In the Land of Ancient History. [ARTICLE]

In the Land of Ancient History.

Amman, mentioned in the Bible as Rabbah, the capital of Ammon, was taken by David after-Uriah bad-fallen in the siege. It has a station on the Hedjaz railway. The ruins of the old city are three miles from the line. In a dreary valley, Imposing in their desolation and grandeur. There is a citadel of huge, uncemented stones, a theater of about 200 B. C., capable of seating 6,000 spectators, which Is still one of the most striking antiquities in Syria, a street of columns of which a few still remain, and public baths. The river, remarkably full of little fish, is bankedjn by ancient masonry and its bed was once completely paved.