Necmi Asfuroğlu Archeology Museum
Necmi Asfuroğlu Archeology Museum was established in 2009 to preserve and exhibit the archaeological remains unearthed during the excavations of a hotel construction in the city center of Antakya. It was transferred to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in 2019 and opened to visitors.
Today's Antakya city was founded by Seleukos I, one of the commanders of Macedonian Emperor Alexander the Great, in honor of his father Antiochus, around 300 BC. It was one of the important cities of the Eastern Mediterranean during the Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman empires that followed. In the museum, you will have the opportunity to see the archaeological layers of the city, which belong to this 2300-year long settlement history, sometimes overlapping and sometimes intertwined, and the artifacts unearthed during the excavations of these layers.
