Turkey's south eastern city Gaziantep is going to welcome world's largest mosaic museum this year. World's current largest mosaic museum in Tunis will be second largest this year after the opening of Gaziantep Zeugma Museum. Zeugma is an ancient city of Commagne, currently located in the town of Nizip, forty-five kilometers away from Gaziantep.

The significance of Zeugma is the Roman villas and their floor mosaics. Zeugma had captured the public attention, when the Birecik Dam Project brought up the possibility that Zeugma could have been inundated under the dam's waters. 
Majority of the Roman villas were brought to day light within the framework of a rescue excavation which was intensified in 2000. Yet, the total of the excavations, which were originally started in 1987, have discovered only a small number of these unique mosaics. 
Today in the Zeugma Mosaics Museum 500 meter square-wide mosaics, 35 mosaic panels as well as the famous 1, 50 cm-long bronze Mars and Aphrodite statutes are in display. 

Ertuğrul Günay, The Ministry of Culture and Tourism, stated that the Gaziantep Zeugma Museum that will exhibit utmost mosaics in the world with its 4500m.in lenght will be in service in september

 Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism