St. Augustine, Florida - World's Oldest Rug - Zorayda Castle Museum

Address:: 83 King St, St. Augustine, FL
Directions:: Villa Zorayda Museum, King St. between US Hwy 1 and Hwy 1A, across from Flagler College.
Hours:: M-SA 10 am - 5 pm (Call to verify)
Phone:: 904-829-9887

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St. Augustine, Florida - World's Oldest Rug

Inside the Villa Zorayda Museum, the first cement building in St. Augustine, is the world's oldest rug. It is over 2,400 years old and depicts a large cat; it's also made from the fur of cats that wandered the Nile Valley in ancient Egypt, some of which could be four feet in length! The rug is supposedly cursed so that anyone who sets foot upon the sacred image will die, and so the museum wisely keeps it hanging on the wall.

The museum is beautiful, but no photographs are allowed. [Amy Y., 03/31/2009]

[RA: Cursed, did you say?]

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November 25, 2009