After a long week of excavation, there’s always enough energy for a trip. This time, it’s a visit to the capital of Jordan. Amman’s long history unfolds across seven hills, and on one of them, remains from every period of the region’s habitation have been discovered. Right here on the citadel sits an archaeological park that offers an excellent insight into the city’s rich past.

After the citadel, our journey took us to the Roman Theatre.

Next to the theatre is the Anthropological Museum, where there’s always something new to discover.

In addition to its many sites and museums, Amman is a city of magnificent mosques— and we finally managed to visit one.

The mosque & complex of King Abdullah I, the founder, the martyr

Mosque is located in Amman in the Abdali area, as a comprehensive Islamic Cultural Centre, which includes a huge mosque and a prayer hall for women and Islamic Centre, Hall for ceremonies and islamic library and islamic museum and offices for the management and accommodation for the imam and the muezzin and other facilities. The mosque was built on a plot of land whose area is a twelve thousand square meters, the total cost of the mosque was 6.183,000 JDs. The works commenced on 5-6-1982, and ended on 6-1-1986, where His Majesty the late King Al-Hussein Bin Talal had the honour of laying down the foundation stone and inaugurated this edifice as a herald for this centre on 5/4/1989 to start performing its great message in a grand ceremony organized for the occasion.