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Hisham's Palace, one of Umayyad-period Palestine's most endangered and astonishing archaeological treasures, may get a boost with Palestine's new status in the U.N. organization. With UNESCO's recent granting of full membership status to Palestine, Palestinians will now enjoy the same right as those of other nations to nominate heritage sites for inclusion on the much-coveted World Heritage list. Long in coming, the new status now opens the prospect that at least some of Palestine's rich archaeological treasures will get the recognition they need for possible consideration and release of new resources directed to their preservation, protection and site development. Among them are such sites as the Dead Sea, Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, the ancient sea port in Gaza, biblical sites near Jerusalem and Hebron, and some sites in the West Bank.
Not the least of these, however, are the impressive remains of the 8th century CE Umayyad winter palace complex at Khirbat al-Mafjar, otherwise known as Hisham's Palace. Just 5 km north of Jericho in the West Bank, the complex was built in 743–744 CE by Al-Walid ibn Yazid ...READ MORE
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