Bust of a woman; Roman Period — Archaeology Museum, Gaziantep.

Twin fruit bowl of baked clay; Early Bronze Age — Archaeology Museum, Gaziantep.

Kuttamuwa Stele; Iron Age — Archaeology Museum, Gaziantep.

Stele featuring a banquet; Late Hittite Period — Archaeology Museum, Gaziantep.

Section of a Carchemish royal buttress orthostat; 8th century BC — Archaeology Museum, Gaziantep.

Decorated baked clay pot; Middle Bronze Age — Archaeology Museum, Gaziantep.

Baked clay toy car; Early Bronze Age — Archaeology Museum, Gaziantep.

Stele showing Antiochus, the first king of the Commagene, shaking hands with Apollo-Mithra-Helios.

Glass necklace; 2nd millennium BC — Archaeology Museum, Gaziantep.

Marble statue of Demeter; Roman Period — Archaeology Museum, Gaziantep.

Male statues from Zeugma; Roman Period — Archaeology Museum, Gaziantep.

Woman's head decorating a grave stele; Roman Period — Archaeology Museum, Gaziantep.

Museum of Archaeology

October 19, 2021 in Turkey ⋅ ☀️ 72 °F

After our meander around Bey Mahallesi, we took the long way back to the hotel, detouring to the Museum of Archaeology. Operating under the auspices of the Department of Culture and Tourism, the ₺12.50 admission was covered by our MüzeKart.

This museum used to house the mosaics that we saw at the Zeugma Mosaic Museum yesterday. After those pieces were moved to the new museum, the exhibits were overhauled, and today many artifacts from digs around the region are on display … from the Paleolithic Age all the way to the Ottoman Period. A partial skeleton of a mammoth is one of the exhibits of great interest to visitors.

It was definitely worth a second visit for Mui and me … and I think Deniz enjoyed seeing the museum as well.Read more