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| Established | 1989 |
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| Location | Aqaba, Jordan  |
| Type | National museum |
Aqaba Archaeological Museum (Arabic: متحف آثار العقبة ) lies adjacent to the historic castle of Aqaba, in the city that holds the same name in Jordan. The museum houses artifacts from the 7th to the early 12th century AD. The building that hosts the museum was the palace of Sharif Hussein Bin Ali, the founder of the Hashemite dynasty, and was built shortly after World War I in 1917.[1]
The museum's collections include a large inscription of a Quranic verse that was hanging on top of the eastern gate of the city in the 9th century, as well as golden coins that date back to the Fatimides and other coins from the kingdom of Segelmasa in Morocco.