"The sugar pottery, consisting of typical funnels and syrup collecting ... one where Wadi Al Hesban enters the Ghor and another one a few hundred metres further into the Ghor," added the researcher.

"Another name for this type of sugar production centre is tahun ... For example, at Tawahin es-Sukkar in the Ghor es-Safi both stones have been found in situ," Kaptijn said. The crushed cane was put ...

A sugar cane factory in Ghor Safi (Photo courtesy of Bashar Tabbah) AMMAN – The early Byzantine period was a period of great economic prosperity in the southern Bilad ash-Sham. “Agriculture reached ...