Historical place profile
Lehun
An ancient site located on the northern plateau of the Wadi Mujib in modern Jordan. Under excavation since the 1970s, the site has so far provided evidence for human activity from the prehistoric period through the Islamic.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:697695
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:697695
- Place type
- church-2, fort-2, mosque, sanctuary, settlement
- Coordinates
- 31.459066, 35.847851
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient site located on the northern plateau of the Wadi Mujib in modern Jordan. Under excavation since the 1970s, the site has so far provided evidence for human activity from the prehistoric period through the Islamic.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 71 B3 Lehun
Source and reuse
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Research path
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