The village of Umm Al Surab is considered a good case study for ancient architecture, said an Italian scholar on Tuesday during a lecture titled “Umm Al Surab: Landscape and History of a Settlement in Jordanian Hawran”. The village Umm Al Surab, some 80 kilometres north of Amman, is found in southern Hawran, a homogeneous geological zone characterised by the presence of basalt stone and currently divided between Jordan and ...