Plague confirmed: Ancient DNA from 230 skeletons in Jerash’s hippodrome links the deaths to Yersinia pestis during the Plague of Justinian. Historic first: This is the first confirmed plague mass ...
A trading hub with a storied past, Jerash grew wealthy under Roman rule. The city's fantastic monuments still shine today as a beacon of its imperial past. Jerash in the second century A.D., at the ...