ARCHAEOLOGY MUSEUM - COLLECTIONS 

 

Featured are painting materials (frescoes), ceramics and sculptures, Byzantine mosaics, coins, fragments of plates, architectural materials (Crusader capitals), jars from Bronze Age tombs, sarcophagi, alabasters, jewels (scarabs, seals and cameos), lamps, inscribed ossuaries, etc., ranging chronologically from the Canaanite period (2nd millennium BC) to the medieval Crusaders (11th – 12th c. AD). There are also extraordinary special collections from Egypt and Mesopotamia.