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Turkish Airlines brings Gypsy Girl Mosaic back home ǀ Air Cargo News

Turkish Airlines brings Gypsy Girl Mosaic back home
28 / 11 / 2018

Mosaics dating from the second century BC are so precious that Turkish Airlines banned all other cargo on the aircraft when it transported them from Chicago to Istanbul on 27 November.

The missing pieces of the Gypsy Girl Mosaic were retrieved from a museum in Ohio in the US after six years of intensive pressure by Turkey’s Mınistry of Culture and Tourism and will now be displayed in the Zeugma Mosaic Museum, the second largest mosaic museum in the world, in Gaziantep.

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