Jeddah Regional Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography
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The Jeddah Regional Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography is a major museum in Jeddah
, Saudi Arabia
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Dar Al-Arkan Real Estate
(DAAR) have been commissioned to develop the area on the 11th October 2008 by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques (the Royal Court).
attributed to the Acheulean
period found in nearby Wadi Fatimah over items of several pre-islamic cultures and items illustrating the rise of Islam to relicts from the time the palace was used by the royal family. A second collection holds ethnographic items portraying the recent culture of the region.
Jeddah
Jeddah, Jiddah, Jidda, or Jedda is a city located on the coast of the Red Sea and is the major urban center of western Saudi Arabia. It is the largest city in Makkah Province, the largest sea port on the Red Sea, and the second largest city in Saudi Arabia after the capital city, Riyadh. The...
, Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...
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The building
The Museum is in the historic Khuzam Palace in the Al-Nuzlah al-Yamaniyah quarter in the south of Jeddah. The building was constructed as a royal palace from 1928 to 1932 under the supervision of Muhammed bin Laden.Dar Al-Arkan Real Estate
Dar Al-Arkan Real Estate
Dar Al-Arkan Real Estateis a Saudi Arabian property development company. It is the largest developer by market value in Saudi Arabia....
(DAAR) have been commissioned to develop the area on the 11th October 2008 by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques (the Royal Court).
The exhibitions
The collection ranges from artefacts of the stone ageStone Age
The Stone Age is a broad prehistoric period, lasting about 2.5 million years , during which humans and their predecessor species in the genus Homo, as well as the earlier partly contemporary genera Australopithecus and Paranthropus, widely used exclusively stone as their hard material in the...
attributed to the Acheulean
Acheulean
Acheulean is the name given to an archaeological industry of stone tool manufacture associated with early humans during the Lower Palaeolithic era across Africa and much of West Asia, South Asia and Europe. Acheulean tools are typically found with Homo erectus remains...
period found in nearby Wadi Fatimah over items of several pre-islamic cultures and items illustrating the rise of Islam to relicts from the time the palace was used by the royal family. A second collection holds ethnographic items portraying the recent culture of the region.