Artworks at Zeugma Mosaic Museum under control of experts

The unique mosaics in the Zeugma Mosaic Museum, one of the world's largest mosaic museums located in Turkey's southeastern province of Gaziantep, are being cleaned by an expert team with the utmost care and precision to protect them for future generations.

The world-famous mosaics in the museum, which are worthy of the Presidential Culture and Art Grand Prize, such as the "Gypsy Girl" mosaic, the "Mars statue," the Roman fountains and other unique mosaics unearthed during the rescue excavations in the villas on the Euphrates River, are being protected by a team of eight experts of Gaziantep Restoration Conservation Regional Laboratories in an effort to preserve them for future generations.

Speaking to the state-run Anadolu Agency, Gaziantep Museums Director Özgür Çomak said that artworks in the museum were carefully looked after with proper checks conducted periodically to preserve and transfer them to future generations.

Çomak stated that the expert restorers of the Culture and Tourism Ministry have been carrying out technical works with proper techniques without damaging the artworks in any way.

"We carry out small, fine conservation and cleaning work without causing any damage to our artworks so that they reach our future generations. Just as we can see it today, we are carrying out this technical work in order to be able to see them after 100 years, too," Çomak said.

Ayşe Ebru Çorbacı, the deputy director of the Gaziantep Restoration Conservation Regional Laboratories, which is affiliated with the Culture and Tourism Ministry's General Directorate of Museums, said that they have been working to make the precious mosaics in the museum available for future generations.

Stating that the mosaics are checked periodically,...