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Qasr Bashir. A well-preserved & enigmatic fortlet in Jordan. Built under Diocletian, but otherwise little understood

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Great photos & interesting survey diagrams of Qasr Bashir done by Brunnow & Domaszewsky in 1897: archive.org/stream/dieprov [German]

3:12 PM · Jun 19, 2016

giovanni brauzzi

Thanks to the South African Ambassador to Jordan, H.E. John Davies, we visited yesterday Qasr Bshir. Great discovery I #LoveJo

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That’s wonderful! I would love a chance to visit and explore it. I do hope it gets stabilized and preserved. I created a short video of how it may have looked in its prime.

The Roman Frontier in the East -- Qasr Bashir Fort Reconstructed

Qasr Bashir in the Jordanian desert, is an incredibly rare survivor -- a Roman fort with walls still standing 20 or more feet high. Yet it has been surprisin...

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