Madaba is the capital city of Madaba Governorate in central Jordan. The city is best known for its Byzantine and Umayyad mosaics, especially a large Byzantine-era mosaic map of the Holy Land. The area of the Madaba Archaeological Park West was excavated by several archaeological expeditions over several decades, uncovering the main buildings in the area: the Roman Cardo, the Burnt Palace and the Martyrs Church of the Byzantine Period, and the remains of different Islamic buildings overlapping to the earlier structures in the northern area of the archaeological park. In the past, the area of the Madaba Archaeological Park West has been intensively excavated by F. Michele Piccirillo on behalf of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum (1985) and Cherie Lenzen (1992-1993), administered by Pierre Bikai, Director of ACOR, on behalf of USAID, and Ghazi Bisheh (1993-1994) on behalf of the DoA and ACOR. The final publication of the results of the more recent expeditions is due to appear in 2017 in an ACOR publication by Robert Schick, who agreed to share his pre-publication data with the team of the MRAMP 2016 Pilot Season