Kahramanmaraş Archaeology Museum is a museum in Kahramanmaraş,

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History

According to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, even in the Medieval Age during the Dulkadir Beylik there was a primitive museum of steles in the Kahramanmaraş Castle Museum page
/ref> During the Republican Age the first museum was established in 1947. In 1961 the museum was transferred to the castle and in 1975 to its present building.

Exhibited items

The items in the museum are from paleolithic,

neolithic The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several p ...

chalcolithic The Copper Age, also called the Chalcolithic (; from grc-gre, χαλκός ''khalkós'', "copper" and ''líthos'', "stone") or (A)eneolithic (from Latin '' aeneus'' "of copper"), is an archaeological period characterized by regular ...

, Bronze,

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Ages. The items are exhibited in seven specialized halls; a skeleton of an Anatolian elephant (now extinct from Anatolia), Direkli excavations,

Domuztepe Domuztepe (meaning ''Pig Hill'' in Turkish) was a large, Late Neolithic settlement in south east Turkey, occupied at least as early as c.6,200BC and abandoned c.5,450BC. The site is located to the south of Kahramanmaraş. Covering 20 hectares, ...

excavations, Hittite items, mosaics, stone tools, chronological archaeology.

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* {{Museums in Turkey Buildings and structures in Kahramanmaraş Province 1975 establishments in Turkey Museums in Turkey Tourist attractions in Kahramanmaraş Province Museums established in 1975