Time Periods Represented
The collections of the museum belong to the following periods:
- The Paleolithic Period: 1000,000 - 10,000 years ago
- The Neolithic Period- The Pre-Pottery Age: 8,300 B.C -5,500 B.C, the most famous artifacts that belong to this period are the Ain Ghazal statues.
- The Neolithic Period- Pottery Age: 5,500 B.C - 4,300 B.C
- The Chalcolithic Period: 4,300 B.C-3,300 B.C
- The Early Bronze Age: 3,300 B.C - 1,900 B.C
- The Middle Bronze Age: 1,900 B.C - 1,550 B.C
- The Late Bronze Age: 1,550 B.C - 1,200 B.C
- The Iron Age: 1,200 B.C - 550 B.C
- The Persian period
- The Helinistic Period
- The Nabatean Period
- The Roman Period
- The Byzantine Period
- The Islamic Period
- The Umayyad Period
- The Abbasid Period
- The Ayyubid Period
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