For 10 years, between 2005 and 2014, the ‘Great Arab Revolt Project’ (GARP) investigatedthe remains of the 1916-1918 Arab Revolt in southern Jordan, from Ma’an to Mudawwara.Expecting initially to survey and excavate the mainly ruinous Hejaz Railway stations forperhaps three years, events soon changed this to a 10-year project. The stations wereinvestigated, but it was the unexpected discovery of conflict landscapes in-between the stationsand farther out in the desert that required more investigation and was added to by the discoveryof over 100 pre-Revolt construction-era camps built by and for the labour gangs whoconstructed the railway. We discovered defensive earthwork ‘karakolls’, stone-built forts,machine-gun positions, Ottoman army campsites, overnight raiding camps for Rolls Roycearmoured cars, and even ephemeral Royal Air Force landing grounds. GARP research fleshedout the Revolt in this region, uncovered unsuspected landscapes, and added a new dimensionto Jordanian heritage. | Council for British Research in the Levant