Citadel, Amman

Today we visited the Citadel in Amman.

This is said to be Hercules Temple. The basis upon which they base this title is that there were three fingers and an elbow found near this Temple that were huge. Based on these pieces, they estimate the statue to be 15 meters tall. I don't know how accurate this is... but there you have it.

This is Savannah's "Take this picture of me, Mommy" picture inside the Museum. The museum was more interesting than I expected. There were sarcophagi, remnants of the Dead Sea Scrolls, statues... mostly headless. I don't understand why the majority of stone statues are headless. Lots of pottery. But it was interesting.

This was one of the buildings on the property. It is probably significant, but to be honest with you, I can't remember what it was. It was impressive on the inside, they have done some reconstructive work, but you can see that original carvings were beautiful. 

Out the backdoor of the big building in the previous picture, there was a maze of ruins. The girls had so much fun running through them. There were plaques every so often with short descriptions of the major buildings and the girls ran from one to the next talking about finding "clues." It was really cute.

As we were walking out, I put Sophie down to give my arms a break and Emily held her hand and walked with her. It was sweet.

After we left, we went to a kunafa shop and for about 0.75 we had a good sized portion of really good kunafa. Yummy!