Museum of the Ancient Orient

The Ancient Orient Museum was opened in 1917 in Istanbul as a section of the Istanbul Archaeology Museums. It was reopened as a separate museum in 1935, and throughout the years, it was reopened a few times after the collection expanded. The museum has a very rich collection, including dozens of artifacts from pre-Greek Anatolia and Mesopotamia, pre-Islamic Egypt, and the Arabian Peninsula. Akkad king Naramsin’s stele, the Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty, also called the Treaty of Kadesh, the Ishtar Gate, as well as the tablet archive containing 75,000 cuneiform scripts, are the unique pieces of the collection.