Bodrum
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Bodrum is a town and district of Muğla Province in Turkey. It is a port town at the entrance to the Gulf of Gökova. Known in ancient times as Halicarnassus, the town was once home to the Mausoleum at
View of Bodrum harbour
A white-washed windmill in Bodrum
Surviving substructures and ruins of the Mausoleum, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Replica model of the Mausoleum at Miniatürk, Istanbul
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
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The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or Tomb of Mausolus was a tomb built between 353 and 351 BC in Halicarnassus for Mausolus, an Anatolian from Caria and a satrap in the Achaemenid Persian Empire, and his
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…Province in Turkey. It is a port town at the entrance to the Gulf of Gökova. Known in ancient times as Halicarnassus, the town was once home to the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, also known as the tomb of Mausolus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The town was founded by Dorian Greeks. It later fell under Persian…
Model of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, at the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology.
Mausolus (casting from the Pushkin Museum).
Reconstitutions of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.
Colossal statues of a man and a woman from the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, traditionally identified as Mausolos and Artemisia II, around 350 BC, British Museum.