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  • Yesemek Quarry and Sculpture Workshop
  • Yesemek Quarry and Sculpture Workshop

    Yesemek Quarry and Sculpture Workshop is an open-air museum and archaeological site located in Gaziantep Province, Turkey. The site was a quarry in Hittite times and considered to be the largest known stonemasonry workshop from the ancient Near East.
    The site is included on the UNESCO Tentative List under the official name, Yesemek Quarry and Sculpture Workshop.
    UNESCO Tentative List
    Elevation: 528 m

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    Yesemek Quarry and Sculpture Workshop


    UNESCO Tentative List

    Date of Submission

    2012

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    Second Millennium BC


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    Hittite Monuments


     

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