Tall Hujayrat Al-Ghuzlan

View of the site

Archaeological remains from the site on display at the Aqaba Archaeological Museum.

Tal Hujayrat Al-Ghuzlan is an archaeological site during the Chalcolithic period that lies 4 km north of modern-day Aqaba city in Jordan. Tall Hujayrat Al-Ghuzlan and the neighboring Tall Al-Magass site in Aqaba both have extensive evidence of significant copper production and trade in the region.^[1]

Overview

Archaeologists from University of Jordan have discovered the site, they found a building with walls inscribed on with human and animal drawings which suggested that the building was used as a religious site. The people who inhabited the site had developed an extensive water system in irrigating their crops which was mostly grapes and wheat, several different sized clay pots were also found suggesting that copper production was a major industry in the region, the pots were used in melting the copper and reshaping it. Scientific studies performed on site revealed that it had undergone two earthquakes, with the latter one leaving the site completely destroyed.^[2]

References

1. https://www.academia.edu/2614141/Long-range_Contacts_in_the_Late_Chalcolithic_of_the_Southern_Levant._Excavations_at_Tall_Hujayrat_al-Ghuzlan_and_Tall_al-Magass_near_Aqaba_Jordan
2. "اكتشافات أثرية في موقع حجيرة الغزلان بوادي اليتيم في جنوب الأردن". جريدة الشرق الأوسط (H H Saudi Research and Marketing LTD). 2004-04-24. Retrieved 2015-09-27.

Coordinates: 29°33′59″N 35°02′03″E / 29.5663°N 35.0341°E