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The tomb chamber reproduced for the museum was built by a rich Palmyran family for at least 219 persons.
This inscription, made in the 10th century BC and called the Gezer Calendar include the names of months and harvest periods.
It was found in the underground tunnel that feed water to the Pool of Siloam in Jerusalem.
On the reliefs dated to the Byzantine Era, 10th century AD, Simurgh is depicted with a wolf head and a body of lion with a tail.
Those statue bases found in the second courtyard of the Topkapı Palace belong to the Byzantine Era, 5th century AD.
On this tomb monument dated to the Roman Era, 1st century AD and found in Marmara Ereğlisi, a town in the Marmara region of Turkey, the armored Tiberius Flavius is depicted at the center on his rearing horse.
The tumulus found in the province of Kırklareli is dated to the 1st century AD.
In the Sarcophagus of the Crying Women, found at the Royal Necropolis in Sidon like the Alexander Sarcophagus, nothing could be found other than the bones of its owner and a bronze belt buckle, since it had been robbed in an earlier time.
The Alexander Sarcophagus is considered as the most important artifact in the İstanbul Archaeological Museums.
This is a copy of an artifact dating from the 4th century BC made in the Roman Era, in the 2nd century AD.
The statue brought from Ephesus and dated to the 2nd century AD depicts the River God Oceanus while he lies on a rocky ground.
This statue group depicting the god Apollo and his muses, i.e. sources of inspiration, was found at the Baths of Faustina in the ancient city of Miletus and it is dated to the 2nd century AD.
The Head of Sappho, an example of the portraits from the Roman Era, belongs to poet Sappho, born on the island of Lesbos (Midilli).
This is the statue of an ephebos, i.e. a male teenager.
The Statue of Marsyas, dated to the Hellenistic period, was found in Tarsus, a historical city in south-central Turkey.
When the Macedon king Alexander the Great, who lived between 356 and 323 BC, ascended to the throne, he was not even twenty
CHANGE IN THE MUSEUM

An Inviting-Welcoming-Entertaining Museum

Within the scope of the İstanbul Archaeological Museums Development Project, it is aimed at making the İstanbul Archaeological Museums an 'inviting, welcoming and entertaining' museum.

OSMAN HAMDİ BEY

Osman Hamdi Bey, who was born on December 30, 1842, in İstanbul, played a very important role in the Ottoman cultural, artistic and scientific life.

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