The Umayyad Caliphate once ruled a vast Islamic empire, but internal divisions, ... and military factors that brought the dynasty to an end and paved the way for Abbasid rule.

Apart from this, the Umayyad rulers had built many buildings like Abd al-Malik Palace and Umayyad Mosque. The Abbasid caliphs moved the capital from Damascus to Baghdad in modern day Iraq.

AMMAN — A group of Jordanian archaeologists has uncovered the remains of six ancient mosques that date back to the Umayyad and Abbasid eras in the Kingdom’s Safawi area, one of the researchers said on ...

AMMAN — Most water-related structures in the southern Jordan Valley and Zarqa Triangle originate from the Roman (63 BC-324 AD), Byzantine (324 AD-650 AD) and Umayyad (650 AD-750 AD) periods. Traces of ...

AMMAN - The Abbasid presence at Gadara (modern Umm Qais) was mentioned in the works of Arab mediaeval geographers and scholars. That period was als ...

The Abbasid pottery was numerous and found almost in all the excavated squares, mixed in most cases with Byzantine and Umayyad pottery; this, due in part, to the nature of the occupation of the site ...