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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.
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    Yesemek Quarry and Sculpture Workshop
    by Klaus-Peter Simon, GFDL or CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Yesemek Quarry and Sculpture Workshop
    by Klaus-Peter Simon, GFDL or CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Yesemek Quarry and Sculpture Workshop
    by Klaus-Peter Simon, GFDL or CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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    Yesemek Quarry and Sculpture Workshop

    UNESCO Tentative List

    Date of Submission

    2012

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    Ancient Rock Workes

    Location

    Turkey

    Gaziantep Province

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    Second Millennium BC

    Hittite

    Hittite

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    Hittite Monuments

     

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