(MENAFN- Jordan Times) AMMAN — Prior to 1968, the hilltop of Machaerus, overlooking the Dead Sea near Mount Nebo was an untouched 'virgin' site, according to Hungarian archaeologist Gyozo Voros.

MMA Research Director Gyozo Vörös told The Jordan Times in a recent interview. The hilltop of Mukawir, the Biblical Machaerus, is where Salome is believed to have danced for Herodus Antipus who, ...

Machaerus is where people commemorate the martyrdom of Saint John the Baptist. Finally, Al-Maghtas, on the eastern bank of the River Jordan, is believed to be where Jesus was baptised. Jordan ...

Josephus said that the assassination was carried out at Machaerus, a fort near the Dead Sea in what is now part of Jordan. Head of Saint John the Baptist on a Charger, painted by Dutch Reneissance ...

Machaerus, where the martyrdom of John the Baptist is told; and the site of the Baptism of Jesus Christ (Maghtas) on the Jordan River. "The site of the Baptism of Jesus Christ (Maghtas ...

Machaerus is a strategic citadel-fortress protecting Jerusalem on the eastern side of the River Jordan, said Voros. The archaeologist, who is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Arts, has been ...