"Jerash - the Hellenistic and Roman city of Gerasa - was one of the most important cities of the Decapolis, a group of Greco-Roman cities in the southern Levant of which most were situated in today's Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The city flourished into the mid-eighth century CE, when a devastating earthquake hit the region. Later in the Ayyubid-Mamluk period it was resettled, and archaeology also attests this period. More recent developments such as the urban expansion of the modern town have presented archaeologists with challenges, but Gerasa/Jerash remains the second most visited tourist site in Jordan due to its preserved and restored ruins. Archaeological research has been conducted in Jerash by international teams for more than a hundred years. Since 2011, a Danish-German team has been working in the North-West Quarter of Jerash on a four-hectare area at the highest point within the walled city. While earlier research mostly focused on the major civic monuments of the city, the Danish-German Jerash North-West Quarter Project has investigated the periphery of the town, examining what may be learned about urban life in these areas and what the periphery tells us about Gerasa/Jerash as a city"--