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Usak Archeology Museum, the completed museum building began work in 1970. The museum exhibits are divided by historical periods and contain the works of many emperors who ruled throughout history. There are idols, beak-mouthed jugs and stone axes from the Old Bronze Age, and pottery and glassware from the Hellenistic and Roman periods. There are tombstones, votive obelisks, inscriptions of penance and sculptures from the Roman era. Among the artifacts, gold jewelry, coins and glassware obtained from excavations. At the same time in the museum. From the 1960s, Karuns treasures, i.e. Lydian treasures, were smuggled from Usak and transported to the United States and returned to Turkey in 1993 as a result of the lawsuit brought by the Ministry of Culture. Also there are silver-weighted artifacts smuggled from Ekiztepe hill in 1966, gold-weighted artifacts smuggled from Toptepe hill in 1965, Lydian relics from excavations at Basmachi hill, clines in tomb chambers in open burials, snails and tombs.
