Zeugma

The Culture and Tourism Ministry has launched an investigation into the suicide of an archeologist, Merve Kaçmış, employed at the world-known Zeugma Museum in the southeastern province of Gaziantep.

It is claimed that she was exposed to workplace bullying after rejecting to take the responsibility of about 100 unregistered artifacts.

Excavation works in the ancient city of Hadrianapolis, in the Black Sea province of Karabük, will continue throughout 2020, the Karabük governor has said.

The number of tourists visiting the Zeugma Mosaic Museum in the first six months of the year increased by 70 percent compared to the same term last year. 

Iron gates have been installed to protect two mosaics on the historic walls of a necropolis in the ancient city of Perge, Turkey’s ‘second Zeugma,’ in Antalya

Zeugma in the southeastern province of Gaziantep is now being promoted to the world with a virtual tour on the website www.zeugma.org.tr. 

This year’s round of excavations in Gaziantep’s ancient city of Zeugma have ended, as the restoration period now begins Three new mosaics have been unearthed during the Muzalar House excavations in the ancient city of Zeugma in Turkey's southern province of Gaziantep.