at-Tafilah

At-Tafilah, additionally spelled Tafila, is a town with a populace of 27559 people in southern Jordan, positioned 183 kilometers southwest of Amman. It is the capital of Tafilah Governorate. It is well known for having green gardens which include olive and fig bushes, and grape-vines. Tafilah became first constructed with the aid of the Edomites and turned into referred to as Tophel. There are extra than 360 herbal springs inside the at-Tafilah region, which includes the herbal reservoir of Dana and warm natural springs at Afra and Burbeita. There are phosphate and cement mines in at-Tafilah which are one of the country's important profits sources.

As with different parts of the Levant, signs and symptoms of habitation in Tafilah Governorate were located courting from the Palaeolithic durations. In 1984 a group of archeologists from the University of Arizona observed stone equipment envisioned at 90,000 years vintage in caves in Ain Defla and Hessa. Although no human remains should ever be observed relationship from that era, the discoveries of prehistoric tools furnished scientists with lots records approximately human civilization ranges inside the Levant.