Jordan Archaeological Museum

This museum, located inside the Citadel, was an unexpected bonus as I had read it was closed Tuesdays, but found it open as I walked by.

It was opened in 1951 and is an old-fashioned sort of place, but the artefacts inside were numerous and interesting. I also liked that they did the history by era with descriptions for each age of the climate, political organization, tools and technology, arts, etc. so that one could trace how things evolved.

One thing I had never seen before was a display of clay anthropoid coffins which were a burial practice from the 13th to the 7th century BC and rarely seen. Some of the coffins have arms and the face of the deceased sculpted on the outside,Read more