Zeugma

UNESCO Tentative ListHellenistic–Roman43 km from Gaziantep

A Roman city on the Euphrates whose villas were partly flooded by the Birecik dam in 2000. Rescue digs lifted the floors now in Gaziantep’s Zeugma Mosaic Museum, the Gypsy Girl among them.

Plan the visit Its place in history

Plan your visit

Time to allow

About 2 hours, and the mosaic museum in Gaziantep

For a first visit at an easy pace.

Stay in

Gaziantep

43 km away as the crow flies, so allow more on the road.

On a trip

Where it began

Day 1 of 5.

Hours and tickets

Check before you go

Opening hours and prices change: see muze.gov.tr (opens in a new tab).

Times are our estimates. Distances are straight lines.

Its place in history

Read the chapter before you go.

330 BC–AD 330Hellenistic and RomanAlexander’s successors and then Rome filled Anatolia with theatres, libraries, baths and colonnaded streets.

Where its treasures are now

In Türkiye

Gypsy Girl mosaic

2nd–3rd century AD. A haunting face from a Dionysian floor at Zeugma, now the symbol of Gaziantep; 12 missing fragments came back from Bowling Green State University in 2018.

Zeugma Mosaic Museum, Gaziantep

In Türkiye

Bronze statue of Mars from Zeugma

2nd century AD. A near life-size bronze of the war god found at Zeugma before the Birecik dam flooded much of the city in 2000.

Zeugma Mosaic Museum, Gaziantep

In Türkiye

Wedding of Dionysus and Ariadne mosaic

2nd–3rd century AD. One of the Zeugma villa floors rescued during the 2000 dam emergency excavation; part of the largest mosaic museum in the world by area.

Zeugma Mosaic Museum, Gaziantep

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