Highlights by Lisa Abend
Istanbul Archaeology Museums
Istanbul
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Sidon Sarcophagi
The Istanbul archaeology museum blows your mind from the moment you step through the door and confront that massive, leering statue of Bes splaying an upturned lamb. But high among its mind-blowing moments are the rooms devoted to anthropoid (human-shaped) sarcophagi from the royal necropolis of Sidon.
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