We had a great lunch in Madaba is a resturant famous through out the Middle East. It had every appetiser know to Middle eastern man as well as a well stocked smoke shop for after lunch, but Madaba is equally famous for its mosaics. Christianity spread rapidly through the Middle East in the second century, despite Diocletian's many attempts to martyr the believers. Mosaics are in general quite durable since they are made of stone, but the greatest threat to the mosaics was man. The iconoclastic movement of the religious inadmissibility of displaying human or animal images. Several mosaics have survived because politically correct mosaics were created over them. The most famous mosaic is in St. George Church crated in 560 AD is a map of the holy land. It is about 50 feet by 20 feet and contains over two million stone tesserae.
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