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ÖZGE TEPE HISTORY OF ZEUGMA ANCIENT CITY Zeugma Ancient City is actually a combination of two cities. Zeugma Ancient City is formed by connecting the cities of 'Selevkaya Euphrates', founded by Seleukos I, one of the generals of Alexander the Great, and 'Apama', founded by his wife Apama, by a bridge in 300 BC. The two cities are mutually located on the Euphrates…

AUTHOR: MATTHEW BRUNWASSER New excavations continue to tell the story of an ancient city located where east and west meet. Saving Zeugma did not happen thanks to a good plan. It was thanks to telling a good story. In 2000, on the Euphrates River in Southeastern Anatolia, not even a kilometer away from the protected area…

EISUKE TANAKADEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE PROTECTING ONE OF THE BEST ROMAN MOSAIC COLLECTIONSIN THE WORLD: Ownership and Protection in the Case of the Roman Mosaics from Zeugma, Turkey Eisuke TanakaDepartment of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge ABSTRACT This paper explores the relationship between …

GÜLŞEN BAŞPINAR SELIM KAPUR DEPARTMENT OF ARCHEOMETRY / DEPARTMENT OF ARCHEOMETRY In this study, seal impressions unearthed in the archive buildings of the Ancient City of Zeugma, located on the banks of the Euphrates River in the province of Gaziantep and during the rescue excavations carried out under the Gaziantep Museum Directorate, were found in powdered preparations with X…

CELAL BEŞIKTEPE TMMOB BOARD MEMBER According to anthropologists: In our world, which has a history of 4.5 billion years, the history of the living past is 3.5 billion years. We encounter mammals 180 million years ago. Two million years have passed since man broke away from the animal kingdom. In its two million years of evolution, humans have been in close contact with each other, that is, with their fellow humans and with nature.

GILA BENMAYOR (HÜRRIYET NEWSPAPER WRITER) High-level UNESCO officials came all the way from Paris to Gaziantep to see what the latest situation is in Zeugma. The people around the table at Tilmen Restaurant in Gaziantep are as follows: UNESCO's Deputy Director-General for Culture, Mounir Bouchenaki, UNESCO Vice President for Projects Minja Yang, our UNESCO Ambassador Bozkurt Aran (to Tehran…

GILA BENMAYOR (HÜRRIYET NEWSPAPER WRITER) Hacı Bayram Bulgurlu, who was appointed as the Deputy Chairman of the GAP Administration, said to the experts who brought Zeugma to the agenda: "Don't mention Zeugma to me. Bulgurlu's reaction to Zeugma was due to its Roman culture. In introducing the ancient city to the world, the Packard Foundation has received important support for the excavations…

MEHMET ÖNAL (GAZIANTEP MUSEUM ARCHEOLOGIST) Fresco masters, who drew colorful mosaics on cloth and prepared paintings for the mosaic artist, also decorated the walls of the houses overlooking the Euphrates in Zeugma with frescoes (wall paintings). They skillfully mixed earth and mineral dyes to create vibrant colors that would make mosaic artists jealous. Filtered lime, fine sand added…

MURAT UĞURLUER (RESEARCHER) INTRODUCTION The member states of the Council of Europe, which have signed the present convention (revised) and the other states party to the European Cultural Convention, declare that the aim of the Council of Europe is to achieve closer cooperation between its members, in particular to protect and develop the ideals and principles that are their common heritage. Considering that cooperation is to be carried out; 19…

M. İSKENDER TARGAÇ Ancient Zeugma B.C. As one of the four important cities of the Kingdom of Commagene, which was founded in the 1st century, it awaits its tragic end today in Belkıs village, located approximately 10 km east of Nizip District of Gaziantep. Its name means "bridge", "vineyard" or "passageway" in Greek.

MEHMET ÖNAL (GAZIANTEP MUSEUM ARCHEOLOGIST) The Euphrates River has been flowing fast in the canyons and coyly in the plains for thousands of years, greening the land, giving fertility and abundance to its surroundings, and feeding various civilizations. The city of Selevkeia Euphrates (Zeugma) was founded on the hills overlooking the river in the Euphrates Valley, where the flow of the Euphrates becomes gentle and covered in green from top to toe.…

THIS INTERVIEW WAS TAKEN FROM GAP DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION MAGAZINE. INTERVIEW WITH ROB EARYL AT ZEUGMA When did you come to Turkey? The GAP Administration and the Packard Humanities Institute (PHI), a charity organization, signed a protocol in June 2000. OAU also carries out general projects within the framework of this protocol…