Southeastern Anatolia

Museums in Gaziantep

6 museums and archaeological sites in the province of Gaziantep, with hours and what to see at each.

Gaziantep's archaeological museum, in a purpose-built 1969 building, with more than 1,700 objects from the city and its surroundings.

A landmark citadel on a hill in the centre of Gaziantep, one of Turkey's best-preserved castles, built on a mound of great antiquity.

A cliff-top fortress in Yavuzeli, Gaziantep, where the Merzimen stream meets the Euphrates, now a peninsula surrounded by a dam lake.

An open-air quarry and sculpture workshop of the Hittite and Late Hittite world in Gaziantep, with hundreds of unfinished statues left in the basalt.

One of the world's great mosaic museums, in a former tobacco factory in Gaziantep, showing Roman mosaics rescued from ancient Zeugma.

The ancient Euphrates crossing of Zeugma, a wealthy Roman city famous for its mosaics and a bronze statue of Mars found in the Poseidon Villa.

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