New Samsun Museum ready for opening

The New Samsun Museum, which is conceptually rare in the world, being home to the Amisos Treasure, considered the most valuable in Türkiye after the Karun Treasure, as well as a skull with traces of a 5,000-year-old brain surgery, will open tomorrow.

The construction of the New Samsun Museum has been completed. The historical artifacts to be exhibited in the museum have been set in place and the museum will open tomorrow with the participation of Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy.

There are some exciting works on display in the museum. The Amisos Treasure, consisting of 64 pieces, was found during a construction excavation in Samsun on Nov. 28, 1995, and is considered the most valuable treasure belonging to the dynasty members of the Pontus Kingdom, has its place in the Samsun Museum. It is stated that the history of the gold artifacts dates back to the 1st century B.C.

The 5,000-year-old skulls with traces of brain surgery, unearthed during the excavations in the Early Bronze Age graves of the İkiztepe Mound, where the oldest and longest systematic excavation continues in the Black Sea Region, was also put on display in the museum.

The skulls, found in Anatolia, draw attention with the largest healed skull hole. It was determined that the surgical hole in the skulls of adult male individuals narrowed over time, and they may have lived for some time after the operation.

The museum is also home to coins from the Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Seljuk, Ottoman and Republican periods, the Amisos Mosaic with a base size of 56 square meters, jewelry, arches, sculptures, tombs and warship models from the Chalcolithic, Early Bronze, Hittite, Hellenistic and Roman periods as well as many works such as clothes from...