Saturday, February 26, 2011

Gaziantep Museum of Archaeology

Gaziantep Museum of Archaeology

The original "Gypsy Girl" mosaic of Zeugma, Turkey. Covered in excavations carried out in the winter of 1998-1999.

The Gaziantep Museum of Archaeology is an archaeological museum in the city of Gaziantep, Turkey. It is best known for its collection of mosaics were excavated from which most of the ancient Roman city of Zeugma site known. Other exhibits include a collection of Paleolithic artifacts, items from a Bronze Age necropolis, Hittite, Persian, Roman, Hellenistic and Comogene art and glassware, Ottoman and Islamic coins and medals, and the skeleton of a mammoth. At the museum is a garden with a selection of stone tools, including pagan grave stones from Zeugma, Christian grave stones and Hittite statues.,


The museum in its present form dates from 2005, when it increased significantly to the newly discovered Zeugma mosaics house was.

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