Overlooking the city of Amman is the citadel and inside the citadel is the archaeological museum.
It contains the oldest statues. This plaster statue was made
It also has some old remains.
This pot was made in 700BC
Here are more early plaster statues.
This one only has one head.
These were the first plaster statues we had seen before. They were neat looking.
This is the royal dog collar.
This is a royal glove.
This is a royal water jug.
This is the royal Bible.
This is a 2680 caret emerald carved into an oil container (not officially the royal oil container).
These are the coronation vestments of Emperor Ferdinand I. The golden winged lion is the symbol of Venice. The snake eating a baby is the symbol of Milan.
Unicorn horns look a lot like Narwhal tusks. In fact they have the same DNA!
Not all of them were that long.
This bowl became world famous because the word “XRISTO” is clearly written in the natural texture of the stone.
It is supposed to be easier to see from this angle. We never did figure out what they are looking at.
This is a piece of Jesus’s underpants.
It appears to be from the exactly the same piece of fabric as the piece of this bit of the tablecloth from the last supper.
The similarity apparently didn’t concern Medieval relic collectors. But then neither did the popularity of tablecloths and embroidered loincloths in 1st century Palestine.
We had wienners in Vienna. Matt enjoyed them.
But not as much as he enjoyed the apple strudel.
We also had wiener schnitzel.
We time travelled in Vienna through a surprisingly good cheesy tourist attraction and learned why Viennese food is weird.
There were talking animatronic monarchs from various time periods.
We also got to dress up like royalty and go on a spinney ride that pretends to waltz.
Then we did a simulated carriage ride that is not just a 15 minute looping video of a horse’s rear end. A certain southern Alberta carriage museum could learn from this. Of course the Alberta one probably more faithfully recreates the experience of riding a carriage.
