Quake-hit Hatay Archaeology Museum Gets Reinforced - Turkey
Museum Director Ayşe Ersoy poses in fornt of a mosaic, in Hatay, Turkey, on January 23, 2024, on year after deadly quake. Hatay Archeology Museum Director Ayşe Ersoy said, 'Thirty artifacts too big to carry were put under cages. All of our mosaics were taken under protection on site', reinforcement works are now being carried out in the building. Teams continue to work in line with the report given by the scientific teams. After three years, our museum will be reopened to visitors with a completely different concept'. The museum has a total exhibition area of 10,000 square meters, including 3,500 square meters of mosaics, and is known for its extensive collection of archaeological artifacts. Hatay Archeology Museum, one of the museums where the world's largest mosaic collection of the Roman and Byzantine Era. There are also many artifacts from the Paleolithic, Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, Hittite, Hellenistic, Eastern Roman, Seljuk and Ottoman periods in the museum. Photo by Ugur Yildirim/Demiroren Vi
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