Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
The ruins of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
Location within Turkey
General information
Status	In Ruins
Type	Mausoleum
Architectural style	Classical
Town or city	Halicarnassus, Achaemenid Empire (modern-day Bodrum, Turkey)
Country	Achaemenid Empire (nowadays located in Turkey)
Coordinates	37°02′16″N 27°25′27″E / 37.0379°N 27.4241°E / 37.0379; 27.4241Coordinates: 37°02′16″N 27°25′27″E / 37.0379°N 27.4241°E / 37.0379; 27.4241
Opened	351 BC
Demolished	1494 AD
Client	Mausolus and Artemisia II of Caria
Owner	Artaxerxes III
Height	Approximately 45 m (148 ft)
Design and construction
Architect	Satyros and Pythius of Priene
Other designers	Leochares, Bryaxis, Scopas and Timotheus

The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or Tomb of Mausolus (Ancient Greek: Μαυσωλεῖον τῆς Ἁλικαρνασσοῦ; Turkish: Halikarnas Mozolesi) was a tomb built between 353 and 350 BC at Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, a satrap in the Persian Empire, and his sister-wife Artemisia II of Caria. The structure was designed by the Greek architects Satyros and Pythius of Priene.

The Mausoleum was approximately 45 m (148 ft) in height, and the four sides were adorned with sculptural reliefs, each created by one of four Greek sculptors—Leochares, Bryaxis, Scopas of Paros and Timotheus. The finished structure of the mausoleum was considered to be such an aesthetic triumph that Antipater of Sidon identified it as one of his Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was destroyed by successive earthquakes from the 12th to the 15th century, the last surviving of the six destroyed wonders.

The word mausoleum has now come to be used generically for an above-ground tomb.