The Gaziantep Museum of Archaeology ( tr, Gaziantep Arkeoloji Müzesi) is an

archaeological Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

museum located in the city of

Gaziantep Gaziantep (), previously and still informally called Aintab or Antep (), is a major city and capital of the Gaziantep Province, in the westernmost part of Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Region and partially in the Mediterranean Region, approximat ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...

. It housed for some years a collection of

mosaic A mosaic is a pattern or image made of small regular or irregular pieces of colored stone, glass or ceramic, held in place by plaster/mortar, and covering a surface. Mosaics are often used as floor and wall decoration, and were particularly pop ...

s, most of which were excavated from the ancient Roman city site of Zeugma. A new museum, the

Zeugma Mosaic Museum Zeugma Mosaic Museum, in the town of Gaziantep, Turkey, is the biggest mosaic museum in the world, containing 1700 m2 of mosaics. It opened to the public on 9 September 2011. The museum features of mosaic and replaces the Bardo National Mu ...

now houses those. After an overhaul of the displays the museum now houses a fine collection of finds from the region. Exhibits include a collection of

paleolithic The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic (), also called the Old Stone Age (from Greek: παλαιός ''palaios'', "old" and λίθος ''lithos'', "stone"), is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone too ...

artifacts; items from a

Bronze Age The Bronze Age is a historic period, lasting approximately from 3300 BC to 1200 BC, characterized by the use of bronze, the presence of writing in some areas, and other early features of urban civilization. The Bronze Age is the second pri ...

necropolis A necropolis (plural necropolises, necropoles, necropoleis, necropoli) is a large, designed cemetery with elaborate tomb monuments. The name stems from the Ancient Greek ''nekropolis'', literally meaning "city of the dead". The term usually im ...

; Hittite,

Persia Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

n, Roman, Hellenistic, and

Commagene Commagene ( grc-gre, Κομμαγηνή) was an ancient Greco-Iranian kingdom ruled by a Hellenized branch of the Iranian Orontid dynasty that had ruled over Armenia. The kingdom was located in and around the ancient city of Samosata, which s ...

artworks and

glass Glass is a non-crystalline, often transparent, amorphous solid that has widespread practical, technological, and decorative use in, for example, window panes, tableware, and optics. Glass is most often formed by rapid cooling (quenching) of ...

ware; Ottoman and Islamic coins and medallions; and the

skeleton A skeleton is the structural frame that supports the body of an animal. There are several types of skeletons, including the exoskeleton, which is the stable outer shell of an organism, the endoskeleton, which forms the support structure inside ...

of a

mammoth A mammoth is any species of the extinct elephantid genus ''Mammuthus'', one of the many genera that make up the order of trunked mammals called proboscideans. The various species of mammoth were commonly equipped with long, curved tusks and, ...

. Attached to the museum is a garden containing a selection of stone artifacts, including pagan tombstones from Zeugma, Christian tombstones, and Hittite statuary. The museum in its current form dates from 2005, when it was substantially enlarged to house the newly discovered Zeugma mosaics. File:Gaziantep Archaeological Museum 0380.jpg, Gaziantep Archaeological Museum Hittite stele File:Gaziantep Archaeological Museum 0382.jpg, Gaziantep Archaeological Museum Aramean banquet File:Gaziantep Archaeological Museum 6914.jpg, Gaziantep Archaeological Museum Grave replica File:Gaziantep Archaeological Museum 0399.jpg, Gaziantep Archaeological Museum Priests File:Gaziantep Archaeological Museum 0258.jpg, Gaziantep Archaeological Museum Palmyra type grave figure File:Gaziantep Archaeological Museum 0257.jpg, Gaziantep Archaeological Museum Palmyra type grave figure File:Gaziantep Archaeological Museum 0256.jpg, Gaziantep Archaeological Museum Palmyra type grave figure

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Pictures of the 2020 and some from older situation

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