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Salt Archaeological Museum

TIME : 2016/2/19 3:47:46

This delightful little museum is located in a well-restored Ottoman-era building and covers the local history of the Jordan Valley area with excellent information boards in English. The downstairs rooms focus on glass and pottery (some dating back 5000 years), spanning the Roman, Byzantine and Islamic eras, mostly from around Salt but also from Deir Alla and Tell Nimrin (from where Joshua is thought to have led the Israelites across the River Jordan into the Promised Land).

Upstairs are some examples of local traditional dress, displays on traditional farming activities and mosaic fragments from churches around Salt.