İslahiye, Turkey
Yesemek
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+90 3428751055
Good for kidsToiletsNo restaurant
No wheelchair-accessible entrance
A cool little hillside to explore. There is a Cafe and toilet but both were closed. Free parking & free entrance.
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If you avoid the highway on the road from Gaziantep to Hatay, you can pass through this ancient query fron Hittie civilization. It might not worth just coming the whole way to see it though unless you are a historian! The visit does not make you any viser about Hittie civilization since like many other sites in Turkey background information is missing on the site. The guy serving at the coffee is ready to extort you pretending he is a guard! The view is nice from the hill.
We were glad we decided to follow the signs to this place. Quite incredible with so much information and a very informative guide to show us around some of the important sections. We had been wondering where all the statues and relief carvings had come from in the other ancient sites we had visited (Karatepe, Tilmen Höyük).
Awesome but can be better....
Mysterious and fascinating place. A little out of the way and close to the Syrian border but its been safe and peaceful both times that I've visited. If you're a bronze age history fan then this is definitely worth popping in to see. As time goes on lichen is growing on the basalt and it's becoming harder to make out the various carvings. At Yesemek statues were prepared but not quite completed. Rough stones would be quarried, shaped, then the rough form would be traced into the stone. Later, once the stones were installed into their final location the finer details would be carved. The majority of the items found at Yesemek were lion, sphinx, and mountain-god statues. Apart from these there were a handful of monumental lions weighing nearly 15 tons. Beyond these there’s also a bear-man figure and an incomplete scene depicting a chariot riding over a man. The workshop was founded by the Hittite king Suppiluliluma around 1350 BC. It was abandoned 100 years later with the collapse of the Hittite Empire, then used again by the neo-Hittite Kingdom of Sam’al (Zincirli). The Yesemek Statue Workshop was actually discovered in the late 1800’s when excavations were underway at the nearby site of Zincirli
It is a bit out of the way place but if you are driving there it is worth visiting. There are a lot of Hittite age stone statues, they look rather interesting!
A perfect mesmerising location
One of the must see site in the region. Find Haydar bey to get very satisfactory guidance. There are 509 sculptures of various types, lions, females, gods, all carved at this site. The museum served as an art school and production facility.
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