Mausoleum
Mausoleum of Halicarnassus draws tourists
Some fragments of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus may have been smuggled to the British Museum in 1857, but the 2,000-year-old structure's ruins in the Aegean city of Bodrum have been drawing many visitors.
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Mandatory school visits to Gallipoli, Anıtkabir suggested
A council has recommended that visits to the battlegrounds of Gallipoli and Anıtkabir, the mausoleum of Turkey’s founding father Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, should be made mandatory for all Turkish schoolchildren.
A very special project for the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
I attended a banquet the other evening within the framework of the Bodrum International Mausoleum Workshop held in Bodrum, in the southwestern province of Muğla. The talk of the evening was the restitution project of King Mausolus' tomb that is listed as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus to be restituted
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, also known as the tomb of King Mausolus, located in the western province of Muğla's Bodrum district and listed as one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is set to be restituted along with works to open the way from Bodrum Harbor to the tomb have been initiated.
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Nikolic lays wreath at Jindrichovice mausoleum
BELGRADE/JINDRICHOVICE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic on Wednesday laid a wreath at a mausoleum in Jindrichovice, Czech Republic, the burial place of 7,100 Serbs and 189 Russians who died in Austro-Hungarian POW camps during WWI.
Nikolic became the first Serbian head of state to visit the mausoleum since King Alexander I, the presidential press office said in a statement.
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Unique ancient structures unearthed in extinct volcano
Continuing excavations in an extinct volcano in the Central Anatolian province of Karaman have unearthed a unique pyramidal mausoleum and a temple.
Karaman Museum Director Abdülbari Y?ld?z said excavation and cleaning works had been continuing at the De?le and Maden?ehri villages in the skirts of Karada? Mountain since 2014.
Thousands fill Atatürk's mausoleum to celebrate May 19, Youth and Sports Day
Thousands flocked to Atatürk's mausoleum in Ankara, where lanterns were released and a concert took place for the first time in 17 years, in celebration of May 19, Commemoration of Atatürk, Youth and Sports Day
Longest poem of classical-era unearthed in western Turkey
Excavations around the Hecatomnus Mausoleum in the western province of Muğla’s Milas district have unearthed a written stela that dates back over two millennia.