Jordan Archaeological Museum

The museum was established in 1951 on top of Amman's Citadel Hill, among the remains of the Citadel in the heart of the city.

The museum formerly housed some of the Dead Sea Scrolls, including the only Copper scroll, which are now on display in the newly established Jordan Museum, along with some of the Ain Ghazal statues.[3]

Ruins of the Roman Temple of Hercules on Citadel Hill

The museum is located in the Amman Citadel in Amman, one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world. Two historic sites are nearby on top of the hill, the Roman Temple of Hercules that dates back to the 2nd century, and an Umayyad palace that dates back to the 8th century. Prior to 1967, the museum had a branch in East Jerusalem.

The collections of the museum belong to the following periods:

• Paleolithic period: 1,000,000–10,000 years ago
• Neolithic period:
  • Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN): 8,300–5,500 BC, the most famous artifacts that belong to this period being the Ain Ghazal statues.
  • Pottery Neolithic (PN): 5,500–4,300 BC
• Chalcolithic: 4,300–3,300 BC
• Bronze Age
  • Early Bronze Age: 3,300–1,900 BC
  • Middle Bronze Age: 1,900–1,550 BC
  • Late Bronze Age: 1,550–1,200 BC
• Iron Age: 1,200–550 BC
• Persian period: c. 550–332 BC
• Hellenistic period: c. 332–63 BC
• Nabatean period
• Roman period
• Byzantine period
• Rashidun period
• Umayyad period
• Abbasid period
• Crusader/Ayyubid period

• British Museum, holding numerous findings from (Trans-)Jordan
• Israel Museum (est. 1965), holding most of the Dead Sea Scrolls
• Istanbul Archaeology Museums, holding major findings from the entire Ottoman Empire
• Jordan Museum (est. 2014), now Jordan's main archeological museum
• Louvre, holding the Mesha Stele
• National Museum of Damascus (est. 1919)
• Pergamon Museum (est. 1930), holding the Mshatta facade
• Rockefeller Archeological Museum (est. 1938), formerly the Palestine Archaeological Museum (until 1967)