This is the second part of our impressions of a journey through the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Our main interest were the historical relicts at the Archaelogical Museum and the new Jordan Museum. Here we saw the Ain Ghazal statues, which are the oldest statues ever made by a human being, they were made in the period 6000-8000 B.C. Another spectacular exhibiton pieces were the Dead Sea Scrolls. They are a collection of 972 texts discovered between 1946 and 1956 at Khirbet Qumran in the West Bank. They were found in caves about a mile inland from the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, from which they derive their name.The texts are of great historical, religious and linguistic significance because they include the earliest known surviving manuscripts of works later included in the Hebrew Bible canon, along with extra-biblical manuscripts which preserve evidence of the diversity of religious thought in late Second Temple Judaism. The texts are written in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Nabataean, mostly on parchment but with some written on papyrus and bronze.The manuscripts have been dated to various ranges between 408 BCE and 318 CE. Bronze coins found on the site form a series beginning with John Hyrcanus (135-104 BCE) and continuing until the First Jewish-Roman War (66–73 CE). A film at the Museum leads into the thrilling history of the discovery of the rolls. Cameras: Sony NEX VG 10/Olympus-OM-D (some integrated stills made by Antje) Music: Joachim Lehberger (Highland Musikarchiv) Special thanks to Mr. Abdalla Yousef, the Archaelogical Museum, the Jordan Museum in Amman