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Halicarnassus Mausoleum (Bodrum)

Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
One of the most important places that should be seen by his- nowned with its terrace area of 105x242 meters and its height
tory lovers is, doubtless to say, the ruins of monumental tomb of 50 meter that all similar structures constructed afterwards
Halicarnassus Mausoleum, one of the Seven Wonders of the were called mausoleum.
World. Halicarnassus Mausoleum had a temple section encir-
cled with 36 columns in its original structure. The monument Resisting against destruction of the human being and nature
had a pyramid roof of 24 steps with the marble sculptures of a for long years, the Mausoleum collapsed during an earthquake
chariot, King Mausolos and Artemisia on the top. that shook entire Western Anatolia in 1304 AD. Its stones were
used afterwards by Knights of St Peter for constructing Bod-
Representing coherent coexistence of Greek architecture and rum Castle while many sculptures and reliefs were taken to
Egyptian architecture with its columns and pyramid shaped British Museum in 1856.
roof respectively, Halicarnassus Mausoleum was so much re-

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