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Quake-hit Hatay Archaeology Museum Gets Reinforced - Turkey

An inside view of the mosaics at the Hatay Archaeology Museum, during the reinforcement work in Hatay, Turkey, on January 23, 2024, on year after deadly quake. 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 Visual Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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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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Quake-hit Hatay Archaeology Museum Gets Reinforced - Turkey

An inside view of the mosaics at the Hatay Archaeology Museum, during the reinforcement work in Hatay, Turkey, on January 23, 2024, on year after deadly quake. 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 Visual Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Quake-hit Hatay Archaeology Museum Gets Reinforced - Turkey

An inside view of the mosaics at the Hatay Archaeology Museum, during the reinforcement work in Hatay, Turkey, on January 23, 2024, on year after deadly quake. 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 Visual Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Quake-hit Hatay Archaeology Museum Gets Reinforced - Turkey

Containers outside the Hatay Archaeology Museum, with the artifacts from the Paleolithic, Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, Hittite, Hellenistic, Eastern Roman, Seljuk and Ottoman periods, during the reinforcement work in Hatay, Turkey, on January 23, 2024, on year after deadly quake. 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 Visual Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Quake-hit Hatay Archaeology Museum Gets Reinforced - Turkey

An inside view of the Hatay Archaeology Museum, during the reinforcement work in Hatay, Turkey, on January 23, 2024, on year after deadly quake. 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 Visual Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Quake-hit Hatay Archaeology Museum Gets Reinforced - Turkey

An inside view of the Hatay Archaeology Museum, during the reinforcement work in Hatay, Turkey, on January 23, 2024, on year after deadly quake. 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 Visual Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Quake-hit Hatay Archaeology Museum Gets Reinforced - Turkey

An inside view of the Hatay Archaeology Museum, during the reinforcement work in Hatay, Turkey, on January 23, 2024, on year after deadly quake. 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 Visual Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Quake-hit Hatay Archaeology Museum Gets Reinforced - Turkey

An view of the Antakya Sarcophagus from the 3rd century BC, under protection in Hatay Archaeology Museum, during the reinforcement work in Hatay, Turkey, on January 23, 2024, on year after deadly quake. 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 Visual Media/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Excavation at Iraqi archaeological site underway: Italian archaeologists

STORY: Excavation at Iraqi archaeological site underway: Italian archaeologists DATELINE: Sept. 25, 2022 LENGTH: 0:02:20 LOCATION: ERBIL, Iraq CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of archaeological excavations in the Gird-i Matrab area in Erbil, Iraq 2. SOUNDBITE (English): ROCCO PALERMO, Associate Director for Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey, Italian University of Pisa STORYLINE: A team of archaeologists from the Italian University of Pisa are working on archaeological excavations in the Gird-i Matrab area, 37 km south of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq, dating back to different ages. SOUNDBITE (English): ROCCO PALERMO, Associate Director for Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey, Italian University of Pisa "We are here at the site of Gird-i Matrab. It is a very important site in the plain of Erbil. It has two major faces of occupation. One, it is dated to the late Chalcolithic and Uruk period which is 4th Millennium B.C. The other one is dated to the period that goes between

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Cyprus holds free guided tours to mark Int'l Museum Day

STORY: Cyprus holds free guided tours to mark Int'l Museum Day DATELINE: May 19, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:53 LOCATION: Nicosia CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the museum STORYLINE: Cyprus on Wednesday hosted free guided tours of museums in the capital city Nicosia, including the Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia, to mark the International Museum Day. As the first historical museum of Cyprus, the Leventis Municipal Museum of Nicosia presents the history and social development of Nicosia from the Chalcolithic period (3,000 B.C.) to the present day. Founded in 1984, it is named after its donor Anastasios G. Leventis Foundation which bought and restored the building and is administered by the Municipality of Nicosia. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Nicosia. (XHTV)