Today, the Citadel of Amman is one of the few Iron Age royal capitals in the southern Levant that remains accessible for archaeological excavation; Jerusalem and Damascus, for example, lie buried beneath their modern counterparts. Its exploration provides important insights into the archaeology, history, and social dynamics of the region during the Iron Age. Ammon was not an isolated kingdom, but part of a complex network of political alliances and trade connections. Through the renewed excavations we hope to gain further perspectives on power, representation, daily life, and cultural interaction in the Iron Age southern Levant. The results of the Amman Archaeological Project already show: the southern Levant is on the one hand diverse but on the other highly interconnected. Amman, the modern center of Jordan, proves to be a central place in the depth of its history, a hub between antiquity and the present.Cross-file under Archaeology and Norwest Semitic Epigraphy.
For more on the ancient kingdom of Ammon see here and here. And for more on the ancient Ammonite language, see here.
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