The Madaba Map in the St George Church, 30km southwest of Amman, can be traced back to the mid-sixth century AD, according to British Art Historian Beatrice Leal. “We don’t know the exact date of the Madaba Map. It is likely that there was once a dedicatory inscription that could have given this information, but it’s not in the surviving areas of mosaic,” Leal said in an e-mail interview with ...