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Thursday, September 11, 2008

AMASYA MUSEUM


Amasya Museum, the more than 20,000 relics, hand skills, figurines and displays of Hittite, Roman and Ottoman periods Seljukid relieved was first founded in 1925 limited in two rooms of Külliyesi Beyazıt II in the form of storage. The current building has been in operation since 1980.


The figurines of Teshup, the Hittite storm God, in the excavations to Doğantepe 1962 was found, is now on display and enjoys a large international fame. Other figurines and God-relief discovered during excavations of the Boğazköy-Yazılıkaya temple are also among the major asset of the museum. The mummies of the Islamic (Ilhanli) Period of Anatolia preserved in Sultan I. Mesut-grave site is equally important.


Extremely improved since its foundation, Amasya museum has grown to the museum's most modern and richest in diversity in the area, and has so extraordinarily for cultural tourism in Turkey.

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