Modern UMM QAIS, Over Looking the Sea of Galilee and the Jordan Valley first appeared in history when it fell to the Seleucid Antiochus the Great (218 BC); the Jewish king Alexander Jannaeus took it after 6 months' siege (67 BC). In (63 BC.) was taken by the famous Roman leader Pompey and became a member of the Decapolis controlling a part of the famous caravan route the king's highway.

Gadara was one of the places mentioned in the Bible when Jesus crossed the sea of Galilee where he cast out the demons from the naked man in the bush into a herd of pigs and sank in the sea of Galilee.

Theatres, Temples, colonnaded street, Basilica and museum make the city spectacular and worth to visit.