In 106 AD the Nabatean Kingdom became the Roman Province of Arabia and shortly after that Trajan’s military engineers constructed a large fort on the north of the town. Legio III Cyrenaica.
See:
- http://web.uvic.ca/~jpoleson/Humayma/TMP3ob4o70iur.htm
- https://www.acorjordan.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/ACOR%20Newsletter%20Vol.%2027.1.pdf
- John P Oleson, Khairieh Amr, Rebecca M Foote, M Barbara Reeves, and Robert Schick, Preliminary Report of the al-Humayma Excavation Project, 1995, 1996, 1998, Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 43 1999, pp. 411- 450 - http://www.academia.edu/34203738
