The Gaziantep Museum of Archaeology holds a broad collection of objects from the region spanning the Chalcolithic period through the Byzantine era. The collection is particularly strong on the Neo-Hittite kingdoms that dominated southeastern Anatolia in the early first millennium BCE and on the Roman period, when the region around Gaziantep was part of the province of Syria Commagene.
The museum contains stone carvings, funerary objects, jewellery, coins, and ceramics that document successive layers of habitation across one of the most continuously settled landscapes on earth. The city of Zeugma, whose mosaics fill the newer Zeugma museum across town, is well represented here by smaller portable objects. The archaeology museum is less dramatically presented than the Zeugma museum but covers a much longer time span and provides useful context.