The Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth (

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: متحف أخفض مكان على الأرض) is a museum located in the

Ghor es-Safi Ghor es-Safi (also known as Ghawr as-Safi) is an area in the Jordan valley, located in the Wadi al-Hasa. It is situated between the governorates of Karak and Tafilah, near the southern Dead Sea. The location is depicted on the 6th-century Mad ...

Jordan Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...

. The museum is dedicated to displaying different historical artifacts and archaeological remains.

History

The idea with the creation of the museum dates back to the 1990s, the idea was proposed by Konstantinos Politis and the

Jordanian Department of Antiquities The Department of Antiquities is a government department in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan with responsibility for archaeological research and cultural heritage management. It is part of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. The department wa ...

after excavations in Jordan. The Arab Potash Company originally financed the construction of the museum in 1996. The Arab Potash Company asked George Hakim to design the museum building. In 2004, the government of Jordan financed the construction. In 2006, the museum building was completed. In 2007, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities of Jordan contacted the Hellenic Society for Near Eastern Studies to complete the design of some of the museum's exhibits. The museum was inaugurated in 2012.

Collections

The museum contains collections of Bronze Age ceramics, Byzantine monastery mosaics. The museums contains Greco-Roman vestments, which were discovered at Khirbat Qayzun. The museum also has Christian tombstones from

Zoara Zoara, the biblical Zoar, previously called Bela (), was one of the five "cities of the plain" – a pentapolis at that time of Abram or Abraham named later, it was a highly fertile valley apparently located along the lower Jordan Valley and th ...

. In addition the museum contains a complete pavement mosaic from the Lot's Sanctuary site. The museum contains a laboratory for the restoration of antiquities, the antiquities that will mainly be restored are ancient mosaics. In addition, the museum contains 5,000-year old pottery dating back to the Bronze Age. The museum contains exhibits of handicrafts that come from communities in Jordan.

Gallery

File:MuLPE 06.jpg, Antique pottery File:MuLPE 07.jpg, One of the museum's exhibits File:MuLPE 08.jpg, Mould for Metal tools

References

{{reflist Museums in Jordan Dead Sea 2012 establishments in Jordan