National Archaeological Museum Amman

Old Town, Amman , Jordan

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    Walking on water....or at least floating on it

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    ... a Byzantine basilica (6/7th century AD), the ruins of the Temple of Hercules (1st century AD) and the National Archaeological Museum (displaying found items dating back to 8500BC). The site is relatively understated and pleasantly under-run by ...

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    A Man in Amman

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    ... . It is then time to explore extensive Amman Citadel which offers fantastic views of the whole of Amman. There is also the impressive National Archaeological Museum which exhibits the oldest statues known (over 8,500 years old) and a small part of the ...

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    Seen one Roman column, seen 'em all

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    ... be in contact with the citadel walls. But on the other hand, inside the small, erratically labeled, cramped and dusty National Archaeological Museum atop the citadel are fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls - water-damaged, insect-gnawed, browned, crusty, ...

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    A day in the Capitol

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    ... Temple of Hercules has only parts of the podium and columns remaining - but then it was built around AD160! The National Archaeological museum on the site was quite interesting with a statue of a man dating from 6000BC, artefacts from Petra and Jerash ...

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    Amman

    ... of the temple of hercules as well as the Roman theatre down the bottom of the hill. We also we went into the national archaeological museum where we saw the remnants of the dead sea scrolls, the first sculptures of people as well as the skeleton of a ...