Ma`in lies west of Madaba and was the last inhabited village on the road that led to the hot springs of Baaru (modern day Hammamat Ma`in) and Callirhoe (modern day Zara). During archaeological excavations carried out in 1973 by the Department of Antiquities of Jordan a monastic complex with a church was uncovered on a hill to the southwest of Ma’in.
At the site some floor mosaics were found, the most significant of which was that in the nave of the Acropolis Church, dated by its inscription to AH 100 / AD 719–20.
