Museum· Şehitkamil, Gaziantep

Zeugma Mosaic Museum

Zeugma Mozaik Müzesi

Built2011

Zeugma Mosaic Museum is a museum in Şehitkamil, Gaziantep; Largest Roman mosaic collection on earth — 1,700 m² lifted out of the rising Birecik dam waters.

Zeugma Mozaik Müzesi
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Largest Roman mosaic collection on earth — 1,700 m² lifted out of the rising Birecik dam waters.

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The Zeugma Mosaic Museum in Gaziantep, opened on 9 September 2011, is one of the largest mosaic museums in the world, with around 1,700 m² of mosaics. Its Hellenistic and Roman mosaics come from the ancient city of Zeugma and include the world-famous "Gypsy Girl" mosaic. The museum and its artifacts survived the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes unscathed and reopened in April of that year.

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