Then I descended some more an took a range of pictures at the (central) Basilica, built in the 5th century, using material from earlier Roman buildings. A substructure gave it a firm basis, geometric mosaics gave it glamour. It is not an earlier temple, recycled so to speak, but a really newly built building. Entrance would be from the north, crossing an atrium, small shops already being in place in the more usual west. Later, in the 7th or 8th century, in the west a monumental staircase was built, consuming the stone seats of the nearby odeon. In a building built against the church at the northern side seven skeletons of camels were found, the building probably having been a stable used by the later Umayyad population.