Şanlıurfa Archeology Museum

The Şanlıurfa museum complex is Türkiye’s largest museum complex. It contains the Şanlıurfa Archeology Museum, Haleplibahçe Mosaic Museum, Archeopark, Roman Bath and Sakıp’s Mansion. As a result of intensive recovery excavations conducted in the region since the 1960s due to the dams built upon Euphrates River, the Şanlıurfa Archeology Museum is one of the richest museums of Türkiye in terms of artifacts. In the museum, you can visit the halls designed in a chronological concept, starting from prehistoric times and reaching to our days. In addition to the numerous archaeological artifacts found in Şanlıurfa and its surroundings, the statue of the Urfa Man, which is considered to be the oldest sculpture in the world (9300-8700 BC), and a miniature display of the Temple of Enclosure D in Göbeklitepe are also exhibited in this museum. Additionally, the cultic area from the Nevali Çori period has been moved to this museum as a whole. The Haleplibahçe Mosaic Museum, located right next to the Şanlıurfa Archeology Museum, is famous for both its magnificent hunting scene mosaics depicting Amazon women, whose names are frequently mentioned in mythology, as well as the Orpheus mosaic.