Qasr Al Mshatta

Qasr Mshatta is the damage of an Umayyad wintry weather palace, in all likelihood commissioned via Caliph Al-Walid II throughout his short reign 743 to 744. The ruins are placed approximately 30 km south of Amman, Jordan, north of Queen Alia International Airport, and are a part of a string of castles, palaces and caravanserais recognized together in Jordan as the Desert Castles.

Though lots of the ruins can nonetheless be discovered in situ, the maximum putting characteristic of the palace, its facade, has been eliminated and is on display at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. The complicated changed into never completed. There are some of castles and palaces in Syria and Jordan that date from the Umayyad dynasty, the so-known as "Desert Castles". Qasr Al-Mshatta is one of the grander examples. They appear to have had a number of roles, in all likelihood such as political and military manipulate of the local location, and pride in the shape of looking. In 1964 a brick became observed at Mshatta with an inscription on it written with the aid of Sulaiman ibn Kaisan. Kaisan is thought to have lived among 730 and 750 CE which lends similarly evidence to the principle that Caliph Al-Walid II commissioned the construction.