Jordan

Mshatta Palace (Qaṣr al-Mshattā) is an unfinished Islamic palace. It may have been built by the caliph al-Walid II to welcome pilgrims returning from Mecca. Mshatta Palace History The outer enclosure is a square-shaped building made of fine ashlar masonry with regularly spaced half-round buttresses and, on the south, a gate flanked by two semi-octagonal […]