Jordan Archaeological Museum

The Jordan Archaeological Museum is located in the Amman Citadel of Amman, Jordan. Built in 1951, it offers artifacts from archaeological websites in Jordan, courting from prehistoric times to the 15th century. The collections are arranged in chronological order and consist of gadgets of normal lifestyles along with flint, glass, metallic and pottery objects, as well as greater inventive items such as earrings and statues. The museum additionally includes a coin series.

The museum previously housed some of the Dead Sea Scrolls, consisting of the handiest copper scroll, which are now on display inside the newly set up Jordan Museum, at the side of the Ain Ghazal statues, that are most of the oldest statues ever made through human civilization. The museum became hooked up in 1951 on top of the Amman Citadel within the heart of Amman. Another department of the museum become set up in East Jerusalem which was underneath Jordanian rule previous to the 1967 warfare. Once East Jerusalem fell to Israel in 1967, the museum lost all of its collection inside the Jerusalem department including most of the Dead Sea Scrolls.