Adıyaman Archaeological Museum

Adıyaman Archaeological Museum is an archaeology museum in Adıyaman, southeastern Turkey. It is located at the corner of Atatürk Boulevard and Cumhuriyet Avenue in the heart of the city. The museum displays archaeological finds from the area around the city, as well as from rescue excavations carried out in the course of the Southeastern Anatolia Project.

When planning began on the Southeastern Anatolia Project at the end of the 1970s, rescue excavations were initiated at many sites in the Euphrates basin around Adıyaman, since many archaeological find spots were threatened by the planned construction of hydroelectric dams. From 1978 on, finds from these excavations were stored in the buildings of the city library. The present museum building was completed in 1982, at which point Emin Yener became its first director. The museum participated in the rescue excavations of the tumult of Levzin and Sofraz and of Haraba, as well as the excavations of the Commagenian city of Perrhe, located within the modern city of Adıyaman. Since 2008, they have been participating in the Research Centre for Asia Minor in collaboration with Margherita Facella of Pisa and Charles Crowther of Oxford in order to record and process the inscriptions stored in the museum.

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