It is a curious dead city, in a steppe strewn with basaltic lava, at 91 km North of Amman. The tourist will be interested in Umm El Jimal thanks to its relatively good state of conservation, and because it is a good example of these small Byzantine cities built on the fringes of the Arabic World with its churches, its monasteries, its cisterns in a country without spring waters, its military and administrative buildings.