The site sits atop a low ridge between the Queen Alia Airport highway and Amman National Park, approximately 2,900 feet above sea level.

A large, well-preserved, five-room, two-story structure built in the Late Bronze Age (c. 1300 BCE) has been the subject of some debate among archaeologists.

[4] It contained hundreds of unburnt animal bones, a cult wall built around 5 natural standing stones, and an Asherah figurine suggesting it was a temple.

These appear to have met a violent end: in addition to numerous kitchen and farmyard implements, the charred skeletons of four people and discarded weaponry were discovered within the burned ruins of the house.

However, in approximately 600 BCE, a major administrative complex was built at 'Umayri, apparently under the patronage of the Ammonite king Ba'alyasha' or Baalis, whose name was found on several seals from this stratum.