Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Ruins · Turkey
- Abandoned
- 1494
- Founded
- 350 BC
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 37.038, 27.424
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
History
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 sister-wife Artemisia II. The structure was designed by the Greek architects Satyros of Paros and Pythius of Priene. Its elevated tomb structure is derived from the tombs of neighbouring Lycia, a territory Mausolus had invaded and annexed c. 360 BC, such as the Nereid Monument.