Silifke Museum

In a region of Mersin on the coast of the Mediterranean, the Silifke Museum first opened its doors in 1973. The museum is small, but it houses a collection that includes artifacts from the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman periods. The statue of an armored emperor, which is thought to have been created in the second century, is unquestionably the collection's most famous object. As well as various coins and jewels from the Persia, Alexandre the Great, Roman, and Byzantine periods, Kilistepe and Kelenderis mound Hittite hieroglyph stamp seals are definitely worth seeing. In addition, the ethnographic section contains local clothing, tolls, and jewelry.