Madaba

Madaba is the capital city of Madaba Governorate on the Madaba Plateau in central Jordan, approximately 30 kilometres south-west of Amman. It is best known for its Byzantine- and Umayyad-period mosaics on Christian and Greco-Roman mythological subjects, and above all for the large Byzantine-era mosaic map of the Holy Land commonly called the Madaba Map. The Madaba Map has a documented scholarly and publication history, including early reproductions and drawings (e.g., Paul Palmer's early 20th-century drawing) and ongoing discussion in academic venues. Archaeological and scholarly engagement in the area is active: the Madaba Plains Project and related fieldwork (e.g., Tall al-Umayri materials) involve researchers such as Dr. Carrie Duncan, and field documentation and photographs from excavations appear in archival repositories. These sources establish Madaba's significance for research on late antique urbanism and mosaic art. The sources supplied for this dossier are archaeological, historical, and archival in nature and do not report any paranormal phenomena, named spirits, or local ghost legends associated with the mosaics or ancient churches. Consequently, no verified hauntings, apparitions, sounds, or other supernatural claims are documented in the provided materials. Any suggestion that Madaba's mosaics or churches are 'haunted' is not supported by the cited sources and would require additional corroborating evidence from folklore studies, ethnography, news reports, or paranormal investigation records.