Khirbet Braq is the modern name of a ruined Nabatean sanctuary at Ayn Braq in Jordan, a spring that, in antiquity, was channeled through an aqueduct to supply ancient Petra. The heavily looted site is located just south of modern Wadi Musa, on the west side of the modern road to Taybeh.
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Khirbet Braq is the modern name of a ruined Nabatean sanctuary at Ayn Braq in Jordan, a spring that, in antiquity, was channeled through an aqueduct to supply ancient Petra. The heavily looted site is located just south of modern Wadi Musa, on the west side of the modern road to Taybeh.
Braq
archaeological site
An archaeological site as defined by the Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus: Locations where human activities once took place and some form of material evidence has been left behind, particularly sites where evidence of past activity is being or has been investigated using the discipline of archaeology.
sanctuary (religious center)
A sanctuary as defined by the Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus term 300391482: "Centers or sites having religious sanctuaries as a primary focus."
spring
A spring as defined by the Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus: Water issuing naturally from the rock or soil upon the land or into a body of surface water.
Location determined in Google Earth with reference to Abudnah 2018 and Hamarneh 2023.
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Hamarneh 2023
Abudnah 2018
Imagery Location of Khirbet Braq
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