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Jordan Crown Prince Drives PM Modi to Jordan Museum in Symbolic Gesture of Strong Ties
Jordanian Crown Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah II on Tuesday personally drove Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the Jordan Museum in Amman, a gesture widely seen as reflecting the deepening diplomatic and cultural ties between India and Jordan.
Prime Minister Modi arrived in the Jordanian capital on Monday for a two-day official visit at the invitation of King Abdullah II. The visit marks the first leg of his four-day, three-nation tour, which also includes Ethiopia and Oman.
The Jordan Museum, located in Amman’s Ras al-Ein district, is the country’s largest museum and showcases some of Jordan’s most important archaeological and historical artefacts. Established in 2014, the museum traces the region’s civilisational journey from prehistoric times to the present day.
Key exhibits include animal remains dating back nearly 1.5 million years and the famed 9,000-year-old Ain Ghazal lime plaster statues, considered among the oldest human-made statues in the world.
The Crown Prince, a 42nd-generation direct descendant of Prophet Mohammad, accompanying Prime Minister Modi in such a personal manner was viewed as a symbolic diplomatic gesture highlighting the warmth of India-Jordan relations.
