Bronze and Iron Ages, Jordan Museum
Exhibits from the periods between 3600 and 332 BC, with additional information. Part of the visual informative tour through The Jordan Museum in Amman.
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The concept of these anthropoid coffins, originating from the mummy coffins of Egypt, was brought to the Levant by Egyptian officers and merchants, and their use was related to the Iron Age notion that the dead lived in their tombs.
These coffins have mostly been found at Egyptian administrative centres as well as commercial centres on the trade routes between Egypt and Syria. Those found in Jordan, however, are dated to a later period than those of Palestine and Egypt.
In Jordan, the coffins discovered at the Raghadan Palace site in Amman are the most interesting. Five coffins were found there in a shaft tomb, dating to between the 10th and 7th centuries BC.
© Text: The Jordan Museum
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Exhibits from the periods between 3600 and 332 BC, with additional information. Part of the visual informative tour through The Jordan Museum in Amman.