Anatolian
Civilizations Museum
this fabulous museum is one of the richest
museums in the world, situated on the south side of the Ankara
Castle in the Atpazari district of Ankara, Turkey and includes
the old Ottoman Mahmut Pasa bazaar storage building and the
Kursunlu Han. The han is used as an administrative building that
contains the library, work rooms, workshop, conference hall and
laboratory, while the old bazaar warehouse contains the
exhibits. There are numerous Anatolian archaeology, as well as
an inclusive collection of relics from the excellent excavations
at various sites throughout the nation, and ages. There are also
exhibits filled with gold, silver, marble and bronze works that
date back to the second half of the first millennium BC. with
outstanding coin collections, and other rare cultural treasures.
The exhibits are dated from their various periods like
Paleolithic from 8000 BC, Neolithic from 8000 to 5500 BC,
Chalcolithic age that created copper and stone tools and
utensils that run from 5500 to 3000 BC, the early Bronze age
from 3000 to 1950 BC, Assyrian trade colonies period from 1950
to 1750 BC, the Hittite period from 1750 to 1200 BC, the
Phrygian period from 1200 to 700 BC, the late Hittite period
from 1200 to 700 BC, Urartian period from 1200 to 600 BC, Lydian
period from 1200 to 546 BC. The coins are especially exciting
and interesting, as well as the beautiful ancient jewelry.
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