Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

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1. Story
2. The tomb of Mausolus, satrap of Caria, at Halicarnassus, modern Bodrum in Türkiye, built in the middle of the fourth century BCE and so celebrated that his name became the common noun for a monumental tomb. It stood largely intact for well over a millennium and was brought down by successive earthquakes between roughly the twelfth century and 1402, the Anatolian earthquake of 8 August 1304 being singled out in some accounts. Charles Newton excavated the site from 1856, and relief sculpture and statuary were taken to the British Museum in 1857, where they remain.
3. Knowledge
4. Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (the Artemision)
5. Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
6. The canon of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
7. Connections
8. Taj Mahal
9. Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (the Artemision)
10. The canon of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
11. Antipater of Sidon writes the earliest surviving list of seven wonders
12. Mausoleum sculpture is removed to the British Museum
13. The canon of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
14. Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
15. Statue of Zeus at Olympia
16. Antipater of Sidon writes the earliest surviving list of seven wonders
17. Herostratus burns the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
18. The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus is pulled down
19. Mausoleum sculpture is removed to the British Museum
20. Great Pyramid of Giza (Pyramid of Khufu)
21. Hanging Gardens (of Babylon, or of Nineveh)
22. Lighthouse of Alexandria (the Pharos)
23. Colossus of Rhodes
24. Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (the Artemision)
25. Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
26. Statue of Zeus at Olympia
27. Philo of Byzantium (the Paradoxographer)
28. Antipater of Sidon
29. Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre), Rome
30. Antipater of Sidon writes the earliest surviving list of seven wonders
31. UNESCO publicly disowns the New7Wonders campaign
32. The New7Wonders of the World are declared in Lisbon
33. Evidence
34. The earliest surviving text assembling seven marvels into a single list, and evidence that the canon originally included the walls of Babylon rather than the Lighthouse of Alexandria.
35. The fullest ancient description of the wonders as a set, written centuries after most had been ruined, and by a later Paradoxographer rather than the 3rd-century BCE engineer Philo Mechanicus.
36. That the surviving physical remains of two ancient wonders are held as museum collections in London rather than at their sites.