Umm Qais Antiquity Museum
Housed in the Bait Rusan, a large Ottoman courtyard house reaconditioned to display sculptures, artefacts and archaological findings from Gadara
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The Umm Qais Antiquity Museum is housed in the Bait Rusan, built for the Kaymaqam (highest official of a county) of the late Ottoman period. The only two-storey courtyard house stands on the highest point of the village at its northeastern corner and dominates the historical silhouette with its dome.
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
Housed in the Bait Rusan, a large Ottoman courtyard house reaconditioned to display sculptures, artefacts and archaological findings from Gadara
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