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tomb (destroyed)
Close ✕Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
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…
37.0, 27.4 · exact · c. 353–350 BCE – destroyed by earthquakes 12th–15th century CE
On the world
- A place in: Wonders of the Ancient and Modern World · 12 places
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Connections
- held in same collection as Temple of Artemis at Ephesus (the Artemision) — Sculpture from both sites was removed to the British Museum in the nineteenth century and is displayed there.
- is comparable in function to of Taj Mahal — Both are monumental tombs built for a single named individual by a surviving spouse or relative, and both gave their form a wider reputation.
- listed in The canon of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World — Named in Antipater's epigram as the vast tomb of Mausolus.
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