About AD 560 the church at Madaba, now in Jordan, decided they needed a map in their building. They could not order one from their Bible class publisher, so they made a large Mosaic map on the floor of the building. This map was rediscovered in the 1880s.
Madaba was known as the Ammonite city of Medeba in Joshua 13:9,16 and Isaiah 15:2.
For now I wish to share a photo of a surviving portion showing the Jordan River flowing into the Dead Sea.
I understand the designer of the map to be saying that the fish of the Jordan River could not survive in the Salt Sea. This portion of the map also shows Jericho, the city of Palm trees (Deuteronomy 34:3; 2 Chronicles 28:15).
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