Featured Museums

Take a look at some of the museums around the world that featured in the series.

Algeria

Hippo Regius Museum, Anaba

• Prize exhibit: Roman Mosaics from the town of Hippo Regius
• Website: www.algeria.com

Croatia

Split Archaeological Museum

• Prize exhibit: Over 6,000 stone epitaphs from the nearby Roman town of Salona
• Website: www.split.info

Egypt

Alexandria Library Museum

• Prize exhibit: Fine examples of Hellenistic Sculpture
• Website: www.bibalex.org

Greece

Thessaloniki Museum

• Prize exhibit: Statue of Emperor Augustus
• Website: www.amth.gr

Royal Tombs Museum, Vergina

• Prize exhibit: Valuables from the tomb of Philip II

Kerameikos Museum and site, Athens

• Prize exhibit: Statue of Emperor Augustus
• Website: www.culture.gr

Argos museum

• Prize exhibit: Hoplite armour
• Website: www.cs-net.gr

Eretria Museum

• Prize exhibit: Finds from Lefkandi
• Website: www.ancient-greece.org

Sparta Museum

• Prize exhibit: Bust of a Spartan Warrior ('Leonidas')
• Website: www.laconia.org

Piraeus Museum

• Prize exhibit: Bronze statue of Pallas Athene
• Website: www.piraeus-greece.org

Museum of the Ancient Agora, Athens

• Prize exhibit: Shield taken from a Spartan warrior
• Website: www.greece-museums.com

Epigraphical Museum, Athens

• Prize exhibit: Delian league list
• Website: http://odysseus.culture.gr

Iraq

Baghdad Museum

• Prize exhibit: Artefacts from Uruk
• Website: www.baghdadmuseum.org

Italy

Pithekoussai Museum

• Prize exhibit: The Cup of Nestor has one of the earliest examples of the Greek Alphabet
• Website: http://museoarcheologiconazionale.campaniabeniculturali.it

Regional Archaeological Museum Baglio Anselmi of Marsala (Sicily)

• Prize exhibit: The remains of a Carthaginian ship found off the Sicilian Coast
• Website: www.regione.sicilia.it

Villa Whitaker Museum, Motya

• Prize exhibit: Motya Ephebe and Punic-era Tophet reconstruction

Lebanon

National Museum, Beirut (Byblos)

• Prize exhibit: King Ahiram's Sarcophagus with the earliest known example of the Phoenician alphabet and bronze statues from Byblos' temple of the obelisks
• Website: www.beirutnationalmuseum.com

Syria

Idlib museum (Artefacts from Ebla)

• Prize exhibit: Cuneiform clay tablets from the great library at Ebla

Aleppo Museum

• Prize exhibit: Fountain statue from the famed Zimri-Lim's Palace at Mari

Palmyra Museum

• Prize exhibit: Stone carvings of wealthy Palmyran families from Roman era tombs

Tunisia

Bardo Museum

• Prize exhibit: Roman Mosaics from all parts of Tunisia
• Website: www.tourismtunisia.com

Turkey

Kayseri Museum (Kultepe)

• Prize exhibit: Collection of personal and business letters from the Assyrian Merchant's Colony
• Website: www.kultur.gov.tr

Corum Museum

• Prize exhibit: Hittite artefacts from Hattusa
• Website: www.kultur.gov.tr

Museum of Anatolian Civilisations, Ankara

• Prize exhibit: Hittite Artefacts
• Website: www.kultur.gov.tr

Eski Sark Museum, Istanbul Archaeology Museum

• Prize exhibit: Treaty of Kadesh - clay tablet with one of the world's earliest peace treaties between the Egyptians and Hittites
• Website: www.kultur.gov.tr

Museum of Underwater Archaeology, Bodrum, Uluburun

• Prize exhibit: Copper ingots and personal artefacts recovered from the wreck of a Bronze-age trading ship found off the cost of Bodrum
• Website: www.bodrum-museum.com