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Dick Osseman | all galleries >> Urfa pictures - Turkey >> Urfa museums and fine houses >> Urfa Cultural Centre > Sanliurfa June 2010 9128.jpg
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23-JUN-2010

Sanliurfa June 2010 9128.jpg

All these pictures were taken NOT at the museum but at a cultural centre of which I do not have the name. In its' garden there are replicas of major finds from the region. Amongst them from Göbekli Tepe (I quote Wikipedia:) "(Turkish for "Hill with a potbelly"; Kurdish: Girê Navokê) is a hilltop sanctuary erected on the highest point of an elongated mountain ridge some 15 km northeast of the town of Şanlıurfa (formerly Urfa / Edessa) in southeastern Turkey. The site, currently undergoing excavation by German and Turkish archaeologists, was erected by hunter-gatherers in the 10th millennium BC (ca. 11,500 years ago), before the advent of sedentism. Mysteriously, the entire complex of stones, pillars and carvings was then deliberately buried in 8000 BC."

This is the seat of the Kültür ve Turizm Müdürlüğü (Provincial Directory of Culture and Tourism).
The building (late 19th or early 20th century) is a neo-style version of the traditional local North-Mesopotamian stone architecture.

Correspondent: J.M.Criel, Antwerpen.

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