Gaziantep Province

Museums and archaeological sites in Gaziantep

Gaziantep Highlights

Gaziantep serves as a gateway to Anatolia's ancient civilizations, featuring the Zeugma Mosaic Museum, home to 1,700 square meters of Roman mosaics. The city's center is dominated by the historic Gaziantep Castle, while the surrounding region contains significant Iron Age and Bronze Age sites. Key locations include the Hittite sculpture workshop at Yesemek, the ancient Neo-Hittite capital of Carchemish, and the archaeological mounds of Tilmen Höyük and Zincirli Höyük, which reveal millennia of habitation from the Neolithic to the Crusader periods.

Gaziantep Highlights — Map

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Zeugma Mosaic Museum

Zeugma Mosaic Museum, in the city of Gaziantep, Turkey, is the biggest mosaic museum in the world, containing 1700 m2 of mosaics.

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Gaziantep Museum of Archaeology

The Gaziantep Museum of Archaeology is an archaeological museum located in the city of Gaziantep, Turkey.

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Gaziantep Castle

Gaziantep Castle is a castle on top of a mound in the centre of Gaziantep, Turkey.

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Zeugma

Ancient Commagene city on the Euphrates River founded by Seleucus I Nicator. The site is renowned for its Roman villas and the extensive collection of mosaics now housed in the city's dedicated museum.

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Samʾal

Zincirli Höyük is an archaeological site located in the Anti-Taurus Mountains of modern Turkey's Gaziantep Province.

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Carchemish

Carchemish, also spelled Karkemish, was an important ancient capital in the northern part of the region of Syria.

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Yesemek Quarry and Sculpture Workshop

Yesemek Quarry and Sculpture Workshop is an open-air museum and archaeological site in Gaziantep Province, Turkey.

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Coba Höyük

Coba Höyük, also known as Sakçe Gözü or Sakçagözü, is an archaeological site in southeastern Anatolia.

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Tilmen Hoyuk

Tilmen Höyük is an archaeological mound located near the town of Islahiye, in the Gaziantep province of Turkey.

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Tell Bašir

Gündoğan, historically Turbessel, is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Oğuzeli, Gaziantep Province, Turkey.

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