“Tell er Rumeith: An Outpost on the Incense Road,” a new exhibit at the Kelso Museum of Near Eastern Archaeology, profiles a site on the Syrian border in northern Jordan, biblical Gilead, excavated by Paul Lapp in 1962 and 1967. Drawing on a recently published excavation report on the site edited by Nancy Lapp, the Museum’s curator emerita, and Tristan Barako, the exhibit focuses on 930 BCE to 730 BCE, a period of conflict between Israel, Aram, and Assyria, when Rumeith was permanently occupied, first as an outpost guarding the fertile Irbid plain and later as a farming village. The exhibit also explores evidence that the site was a stopping place on the caravan route to Damascus both during its period of occupation and later during the Hellenistic and Roman periods.

The Museum is open to the public during the summer Wednesday-Saturday 12:00-4:00 p.m. and during the academic year Monday-Saturday 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. To schedule your visit, call 412-924-1394, see our website, or simply stop in!

“Tell er Rumeith: An Outpost on the Incense Road,” a new exhibit at the Kelso Museum of Near Eastern Archaeology, profiles a site on the Syrian border in northern Jordan, biblical Gilead, excavated by Paul Lapp in 1962 and 1967. Drawing on a recently published excavation report on the site edited by Nancy Lapp, the Museum’s curator emerita, and Tristan Barako, the exhibit focuses on 930 BCE to 730 BCE, a period of conflict between Israel, Aram, and Assyria, when Rumeith was permanently occupied, first as an outpost guarding the fertile Irbid plain and later as a farming village. The exhibit also explores evidence that the site was a stopping place on the caravan route to Damascus both during its period of occupation and later during the Hellenistic and Roman periods.

The Museum is open to the public during the summer Wednesday-Saturday 12:00-4:00 p.m. and during the academic year Monday-Saturday 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. To schedule your visit, call 412-924-1394, see our website, or simply stop in!