Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

This is the fourth of four different “Wonders” caches. Please look at the GC map and plan your route accordingly. These are very narrow roads and it will require pulling off onto grass.  There’s not a lot of traffic but, please stay safe! If you intend to make the entire series in one trip, read the description for #1 and #7, it’ll help on the time and safety!

The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or Tomb of Mausolus was a tomb built between 353 and 350 BC at Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, a satrap in the Persian Empire, and Artemisia II of Caria, his wife and sister. The structure was designed by the Greek architects Satyros and Pythis. It stood approximately 45 m (148 ft) in height, and each of the four sides was adorned with sculptural reliefs created by each one of four Greek sculptors - Leochares, Bryaxis, Scopas of Paros and Timotheus. The finished structure was considered to be such an aesthetic triumph that Antipater of Sidon identified it as one of his Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

The word mausoleum has now come to be used generically for any grand tomb.

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