A splendid, modern museum, documenting Jordan's past from prehistory until Late Antiquity. A part of the collection originates from the old Archaeological Museum on the citadel of Amman. One of the most beautiful museums in the Middle East.
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The Allard Piersonmuseum, the home of the archaeological collection of the University of Amsterdam, is one of the nicest museums I know. I may be biased, though, because Amsterdam is my hometown. I cycle along the museum nearly every day…
Located in a beautiful seventeenth-century house, this museum is dedicated to the Bible, the world in which it was created and the way people have thought about it. There are archaeological finds from several ancient regions, and there is a…
National archaeological museums tell a lot about the way a nation looks at its own history. A comparison of the museums in Ankara and Cairo is illuminating. The latter focuses on the third and second millennium BCE; the first millennium…
Museum with archaeological finds from Hippo Regius. The trophee of Caesar, erected in 46 BCE, is unique.
There are 12 items in Annaba, Museum of Hippo Regius:
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To be honest, I was not looking forward to the archaeological museum of Antalya. My friend Marco and I had been there before, in 2003, and although we were impressed by the collection of sculpture, we agreed that the entrance…
A very large museum with many mosaics and some sculpture, including a splendid sarcophagus. When I visited the place for the last time, parts of the museum were closed because it was moving to another location in a different part…
Situated in a well-preserved Ottoman khan that once offered accomodation to pilgrims travelling to Mecca, this small museum shows some finds from the nearby city, including several nice mosaics and some sculpture. On the courtyard, there is a collection of…
It is a bit confusing that the Institut Archéologique du Luxembourg is apparently not in Luxembourg. In the nineteenth century, the old archduchy was divided into two halves; the western part became part of Belgium, the eastern part became an…