Turkey is a land of sun, sea, and history.
As being one of the content resources of our Explore Turkey web site the book covers the most important ancient sites of Anatolia. Istanbul Archaeological Museum is one of the most important museums of its kind in the world. Founded as a museum during the Ottoman Period , then the imperial museum, the collection includes a number of findings from various parts of the Ottoman empire, including Mesopotamia, and in particular such monuments as the Alexander's Tomb, the tomb of the Weeping Maidens and the Lycian Tomb found at Sayda in Syria in 1891. But as the collection grew, the present building was erected between 1892-1908, to which a later annex has been added in recent years. The late 19th century museum building was inspired in style by the tomb of the Weeping Maidens.