Darrell Rohl News Today

The AlUla World Archaeology Summit — a gathering attended by students and eminent figures in academia, industry and government who are interested in interdisciplinary work as it relates to understanding the past to inform the present, according to their website — was held last week from Sept. 13-15 in Al-’Ula, a city in northwestern Saudi...

IRBID — Umm Al Jimal in southern Jordan had a “strong ecclesiastical character” as testified by its 16 well preserved Byzantine churches, according to  Darrell Rohl, professor of History and Archaeology from Calvin University.During his presentation titled “Evaluating Typologies of Churches at Umm Al Jimal” during the 15th International Conference on the History and

IRBID — Umm Al Jimal in southern Jordan had a “strong ecclesiastical character” as testified by its 16 well preserved Byzantine churches, according to  Darrell Rohl, professor of History and Archaeology from Calvin University.During his presentation titled “Evaluating Typologies of Churches at Umm Al Jimal” during the 15th International Conference on the History and

AMMAN — Three historic stones from one of Umm Al Jimmal’s churches were recently uncovered by the Department of Antiquities (DoA). American scholar Howard Crosby Butler (1872-1922) photographed the stones more than a hundred years ago, but, until recently, the stones were covered from damage in a 1920s earthquake, Darrell Rohl, professor of Archaeology and History at Calvin