Khirbat Ataruz (Arabic: خربة عطروز) or Ataroth (Hebrew: עטרות) is an archaeological site in Madaba Governorate, Jordan.

A Moabite temple dated to mid-9th to early 8th century BCE found at the site is linked to the narrative of the Mesha Stele and the story of the conquest of Ataroth from the Israelites.

[1][2] The site is the location of one of the best preserved Iron Age temples in the Southern Levant (Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories).

It is evident in the excavation that the earliest settlement was built and maintained by a national or regional entity that was violently destroyed.

[7] The site was resettled during the Hellenistic period as a rural village that relied on agricultural economy based on crops, wine and oil.

[8] The site was resettled again during the Early and Middle Islamic periods, when it was a thriving and populous medium-sized village that reused most of the walls from the previous settlement, and especially the temple ruins.