Istanbul Archaeological Museum
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Istanbul Archaeological Museum, which is a complex of three museums: the Museum of Oriental Antiquities, the Archaeological Museum and the Tiled Pavillion, has one of the world's richest collection of classical artifacts and pre-classical treasures.

Battle scene on the Alexander sarcophagus
There are sixty-thousand archaeological treasures, seven-hundred-sixty thousand coins and medallions, and seventy-five thousand clay tablets in these three museums. ''Antique Age Sculpture'' examples are exhibited in the halls to the right of the entrance.
Unique examples of sculpture from the Archaic age until the end of Roman era are exhibited in the halls of ''Antique Crave Stones and Relief '','' Treasures from Persian Reign in Anatolia '','' Hellenistic Sculpture'',''Hellenistic and Hellenistic influenced Roman sculpture '', '' Roman Empire Sculpture '' , '' Roman Art of Portrait Making ''.

Relief of a bull, Babylon

Sarcophagus of the Mourning Women
Aphrodisias Relics, treasures from Ephesus, Miletus and Aphrodisias, artifacts found in Troy, treasures discovered in Cyprus, Palestine and Syria are only some of the vast treasures on display at the museum.

 

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Archaeological Museum

Osman Hamdi Bey Yokusu, Sultanahmet

Telephone: 90-212-5207740

Open daily except Mondays, 09:30-17:00

 

Kadesh Treaty
KADESH TREATY

The treaty of Kadesh is the earliest known parity peace-treaty that had been concluded between the Hittite king Hattusilis III and the Egyptian pharah Ramses II, and was written in Akkadian: the international language of the day, in 1269 B.C. Two of the treaty-documents of Kadesh are in the Istanbul Archaeological Museums.