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The Sustainable Cultural Heritage Through Engagement of Local Communities Project (USAID SCHEP), is a USAID project implemented by the American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) that uses a unique methodology for preserving, managing and promoting cultural heritage resources in Jordan through a community-first approach. The project began in 2014 and is set to continue until 2022.
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Located just south of the Syrian border, the ancient city of Umm al-Jimal is known for its the signature black basalt stone. Inscriptions found at the site are in five languages: Arabic, Greek, Latin, ......
Bir Madhkur is one of 40 sites in southern Jordan with a connection to the ancient Incense Route. This major land and sea trading route stretched from India across the Levant and Egypt, linking ......
This medieval mill made the area the center of sugar production and trade from the 11th-15th centuries A.D. ...
Busayra is widely believed to be the capital city of ancient Edom, a kingdom that emerged in southwest Jordan during the early first millennium BCE...
Petra, nestled amid the sandstone valleys and cliffs of southern Jordan’s rugged desert landscape, was built more than 2,000 years ago as the capital of the Nabataeans, an industrious Arab people of ......
Madaba Archaeological Park West is home to a wide variety of archaeological and cultural heritage monuments. Pottery excavated for the site dates back to Roman, Byzantine, Umayyad, Abbasid, Mamluke, ......
Although Wadi Ramm is primarily known as a natural wonder, it is also home to settlements and cultic structures from various times throughout history. These include the Nabataean Temple complex of ......
Internship Opportunity with USAID SCHEP Ghawr as Safi ...
Second Sustainable Tourism Training Program
Internship Opportunity with USAID SCHEP “Capacity Building ...
Training Opportunity with USAID SCHEP and ISCR - Istituto ...
The Department of Antiquities, along with USAID and the ...
To commemorate International Museum Day on May 18th, the ...
SCHEP's site in Madaba is looking to hire a Site Steward. A ...