Replicas of Turkey’s ‘Gypsy Girl’ mosaic sent to US for display

Copies of 12 pieces of the "Gypsy Girl" mosaic, brought from the U.S. to southeastern Gaziantep in Turkey in 2018, were sent to be exhibited in the American state of Ohio.

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The pieces will be open to visitors at The Wolfe Center For The Arts at Bowling Green State University.

The artifacts were unearthed during a ceremony in front of the Zeugma Mosaic Museum, said Gaziantep Governor Davut Gül.

Gül expressed that the museum made a welcoming area with the municipality in the ancient city of Karakamış and it would close the top of the ancient city.

He noted that work on construction of a museum consisting of artifacts in Karikamış continues, saying that another welcoming area was also built in the ancient city of Zeugma, as well as an 8-kilometer (5-mile) tourism road so people can reach the city.

"The remaining part of the completion of the restoration of Rumkale, the pearl of the Euphrates, was auctioned this year," he added.

They are the most important works of the Roman, Hittite, Ottoman, Seljuk and Republican periods in Anatolian geography, said Mayor Fatma Şahin.

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"Anatolian geography is an open-air museum. Cultural heritage in the world is now a rising value. Now, the world of 'the more gold, oil and natural gas you have, the richer you are' is over. Now, how much cultural heritage you have, how much trained human power you have, how rich we all bear witness to the world order," said Şahin. "As Gaziantep, we are the biggest bridge and carrier of this great civilization. We make a great effort to introduce the beautiful works of five ancient cities located at zero point in history to the world together."

"We have restored places that we did not look after as we saw them as ruins, that...