Şanlıurfa Museum
Şanlıurfa Museum (Turkish: Şanlıurfa Müzesi) is an archaeological museum in Şanlıurfa, Turkey. It is located at 11 Nisan Fuar Caddesi, Şanlıurfa (across the Şanlıurfa Piazza Mall). In this museum, findings from the surrounding areas, i. e. from Göbekli Tepe and from Harran, are exhibited, as well findings from the Southeastern Anatolia Project.
The museum was inaugurated in 2015; it has 3 floors and covers 2,500 square meters of indoor space. The old museum located at Çamlık Caddesi was opened in 1969 with a display area of 1500sq.m. Later on annexes were added. Before that, archaeological finds were displayed in the rooms of the Şehit-Nüsret-elementary school, therefore in Atatürk-elementary school.
It includes the Urfa Man statue, dated c. 9000 BC (11,000 years ago), being considered as the oldest life-sized sculpture of a human already discovered.[1]
Gallery[]
Steles and sculptures from Göbekli Tepe
Hittite Stele from
Stele of from Harran
Fragment with scribing from Nevalı Çori
Basis from
References[]
- ^ Notroff, Jens; Dietrich, Oliver; Schmidt, Klaus (2015), Renfrew, Colin; Morley, Iain; Boyd, Michael J. (eds.), "Gathering of the Dead? The Early Neolithic Sanctuaries of Göbekli Tepe, Southeastern Turkey", Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World: 'Death Shall Have No Dominion', Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 65–81, ISBN 978-1-107-08273-1, retrieved 2021-11-13
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Coordinates: 37°09′13″N 38°46′55″E / 37.15361°N 38.78194°E
- Archaeological museums in Turkey
- Buildings and structures in Şanlıurfa
- Museums established in 1969
- 1969 establishments in Turkey