Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

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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.