Bodrum

• Bodrum is a city located in the Mugla Province of southwestern Turky. It was the ancient Greek city of Halicarnassus.
• Halicarnassus was located in the Roman Province of Asia.

History

• Halicarnassus is famous for holding the Mausoleum of Mausolus at Halicarnassus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
• Part of its Ruins can be seen today.

Ancient Greek Sites

• Mausoleum of Mausolus at Halicarnassus
  • The Ruins are still visible.
• Halicarnassus city walls (vestiges).

Museums

• Bodrum Maritime Museum
  • Located at Carsu Mah, Nazum Hikmet Sk. No:4 D:1, Bodrum-Mugla.
  • The museum holds models of ships from Bodrum used over the ages.

• Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archeology
  • Located at Bodrum Castle, Carsi Mh:, Bodrum-Mugla.
  • The museum holds a number of excavated vessels and their contents:
    1. Seytan Deresi shipwreck (16th century BCE)
    2. Uluburun Shipwreck (14th century BCE)
       • 10 tons Cypriot copper ingots, 1 ton Tin ingots, 150 glass ingots, Mycenaean Pottery, Egyptian Seals.
    3. Finike-Gelidonya shipwreck (12th century BCE)
    4. Tektas Burnu Classical Greek shipwreck (5th century BCE)
    5. Marmaris-Serce harbour shipwreck (Hellenisitic 3rd century BCE)
    6. Bodrum-Yassiada shipwreck (Late Roman 4th century CE)
    7. Bodrum-Yassiada shipwreck (Byzantine 7th century CE)
       • Merchant ship with 900 Amphorae
    8. Marmaris-Serce harbour shipwreck (glass 11th century CE)
    9. Bodrum-Yassiada shipwreck (Ottoman 16th century CE)
• British Museum
  • Room 21. The Museum holds Artefacts from the Mausoleum of Mausolus at Halicarnassus, such as Statues, Marble relief slabs and fragments of the Marble Four-horse Chariot that once stood on the roof.

Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology