Photographer's Note
Zeugma Mosaic Museum, in the town of Gaziantep, Turkey, is the biggest mosaic museum on the world, containing 1700m2 of mosaics[citation needed]. It opened to the public on 9 September 2011.
The museum's mosaics are focused on Zeugma, thought to have been founded by a general in Alexander the Greats army. The treasures, including the mosaics, remained relatively unknown until 2000 when artifacts appeared in museums and when plans for new dams on the Euphrates meant that much of Zeugma would be forever flooded. A large number of the mosaics still remain uncovered and teams of researchers continue to work on the project.
The 90,000-square-foot museum features a 7,500-square-foot exhibition hall and replaces the Bardo National Museum in Tunis as the worlds largest mosaic museum.
Zeugma Mozaik Müzesi; 9 Eylül 2011 tarihinde Gaziantep'te açılan ve 1700 metrekarelik mozaik ile Dünya'nın en büyük mozaik müzesi olma özelliğini taşıyan müzedir. Müze, ziyarete açık olduğu ilk bir gün boyunca 3000'in üzerinde ziyaretçi ağırlamıştır.
Gerek mimarisi, gerekse teknolojik açıdan dünyanın önde gelen bir müzesidir. İki bin yıllık mozaiklerin yıllar içinde define avcılarının talanıyla eksilen parçaları, lazer sistemiyle görüntü olarak tamamlanmaktadır. Zeugmadaki mozaikler on üç renk armonisinden oluşmaktadır. Üç blok olarak inşa edilen Zeugma Mozaik Müzesi, mozaik ve arkeoloji müzeleriyle sergi ve konferans salonu olarak hizmet verecek. Müzede Zeugma'dan gelen mozaikler sergilenilir. Ayrıca Dünyaca ünlü "Çingene Kızı" mozaiği burada sergilenmektedir.
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No_One
(4) 2014-06-25 13:29
Hi Alptekin,
I like this scene a lot, the angle you chose creates excellent depth and has really fine detail of the subject of this place. The appearance of mist around the backdrop makes a great mysterious sense in your image. Very nice, thanks for sharing,
Best wishes
Noel
terez93
(2193) 2018-10-06 16:41
I like your whole series of photos on Zeugma, but this one is the most poignant to me: the background, and the massive mosaic in the foreground. The mosaics uncovered at this site are some of the best preserved in the world, but it's a terrible tragedy that much of the site was inundated with the construction of the dam. Especially tragic for me as a Roman historian. I'm glad that many of them were rescued in time, however, and, I suppose, that even through the remains of the city are now flooded, it is also still preserved, just inaccessible to humans, at present. These treasures still lie undisturbed, just now underwater.
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Copyright: Alptekin Cevherli (acevherli)
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- Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2014-06-07
- Categories: Architecture
- Camera: Sony DSC W570
- Exposure: f/2.6, 1/25 seconds
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- Photo Version: Original Version
- Date Submitted: 2014-06-25 2:15
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