Mosaics from Zeugma

One of the most remarkable museums in eastern Turkey is at Gaziantep. There a new museum has been built just for the incredible ancient Roman mosaics from the archaeological site of Zeugma. The lighting was a bit dramatic but I liked the place a lot. It’s a place of pilgrimage for Turkish tourists too. There were hundreds of them there. It’s a great museum. The picture above is the face of the figure Oceanus from one of the mosaics. Here’s a slideshow of some other pieces. I didn’t stay in Gaziantep (locals just call it by its old name, ‘Antep’), so I just took a minibus from the Otogar (bus station) to the museum. It’s only about 3 km away. I was wanting to get to Sanliurfa before dark. I made it…