Museum

Gaziantep Archaeological Museum

The museum, founded by Sebahat Göğüş, one of the first female archaeologists of the Republic Period, features 106 display cases starting with Geological Period fossils and rocks, and ending with artifacts from the Paleolithic, Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze Ages, Hittite, Hurrian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Islamic, and Ottoman periods. Additionally, the skeletons of the extinct Maraş Elephant are also exhibited in the museum.