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In the city of Bodrum (Halicarnassus) in the Aegean Sea, in South Western Turkey.
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The Mausoleum was completed in 350 BC, three years after the death of Mausolus, and a year after that of Artemis. Six centuries after these events, Philo of Byzantium includes the Mausoleum as one of the seven wonders of the world in such a grand account of the work of architects Satyrs and Pitea.
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* The burial chamber and sarcophagus of white alabaster decorated with gold were located on the podium and surrounded by Ionic columns * pyramid-shaped roof with statues * A statue of a chariot drawn by four horses adorned the top the grave.
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* The total height of the Mausoleum was 45 m * 20 m stepped to the podium, 12 m to the colonnade, 7 m for the pyramid and 6 m for the statue of the car at the top.
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Only 16 years after its construction, Alejandro Magno, ordered to destroy the "temple of Artemis." Conquered the city and destroy the mausoleum
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In the year 1522 almost all blocks of the Mausoleum had been used for the construction of San Pedro Castle in Bodrum
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