Like so many good things in the Middle East, Jerash started to take off with Alexander the Great. Once Pompeii took control of Syria for the Romans, he made it one of the great cities in the Decapolis League, which contained cities such as Damascus and Philadelphia (Modern day Amman).All went fairly well until earthquake demolished the city in 749 AD. It was deserted after that and covered with desert Sand. Sand is the great preserver in the Middle East. Almost all ruins in a well preserved state are that way because they were buried in sand until the eighteen or nineteen century. Excavations started in in 1925.
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