The semester is over, and now it’s time to catch up on everything else in my life. As promised, I’ll finally be posting photos from our trip to Jordan. This first round is from our visit to the Jordan Archeological Museum in Amman.
(I know, I kind of felt like I was on the Island.)
The museum was small, but full of beautiful artifacts.
I loved these ancient glass objects.
And yes, there’s still tea to be made… even in the museum.
It was neat to see more fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls. We saw a traveling exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls in Raleigh a few years ago and I think they limited the number of people allowed in the room at one time in order to control the temperature, humidity, etc. Not the case here, but that’s okay.
The above statue was labeled as being the oldest statue of its kind. It’s from the Neolithic era… and sadly, we lost our trusty Lonely Planet guidebook for Jordan so I don’t have all the facts, but I read online that it’s about 9,500 years old. Pretty amazing! Here’s a little more about it: http://heritage-key.com/world/ayn-ghazal-statues
The archeological museum was located at the Citadel, which had amazing views of the city of Amman.
I loved Amman and would go back in a heartbeat!