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Bodrum Castle in 2020. In 1962 the Turkish Government decided to turn the castle into a museum for the underwater discoveries of ancient shipwrecks in the Aegean Sea. This has become the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology, [6] with a collection of amphoras, ancient glass, bronze, clay, and iron items. It is the biggest museum of its kind ...
The Castle of Bodrum retains its original design and character of the Knights' period and reflects Gothic architecture. [20] It also contains the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology, a museum established by the Turkish government in 1962 to host the underwater discoveries of ancient shipwrecks in the Aegean Sea. [21]
Lifesize replica at the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology. The distribution of the wreckage and the scattered cargo indicates that the ship was between 15 and 16 metres (49 and 52 ft) long. It was constructed by the shell-first method, with mortise-and-tenon joints similar to those of the Graeco-Roman ships of later centuries. [16]
Room 21, the British Museum, London. In the 19th century, a British consul stole several of the statues from Bodrum Castle; these now reside in the British Museum. In 1852, the British Museum sent the archaeologist Charles Thomas Newton to search for more remains of the Mausoleum. He had a difficult job.
Model of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, at the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology. Persian sphinx from Halicarnassus, 355 BC. Mausolus moved his capital from Mylasa to Halicarnassus. His workmen deepened the city's harbor and used the dragged sand to make protecting breakwaters in front of the channel. [7]
Bodrumkale is a castle ruin in Osmaniye Province, Turkey. It is situated on a hill, about 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) away from Osmaniye. The castle is to the northeast of the ancient city of Castabala. In medieval times it controlled the road from Central Anatolia to the Mediterranean coast.
The museum’s history starts in 1998, when Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani opened a building to the public on his farm some 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of Qatari capital Doha.
Theatre at Halicarnassus in Bodrum, with the Bodrum Castle seen in the background, 2015.. The Theatre at Halicarnassus, [1] also known as Bodrum Antique Theatre [2] [3] (Turkish: Bodrum Antik Tiyatrosu, usually shortened as Antik Tiyatro), is a 4th-century BC [4] Greco-Roman theatre located in Bodrum, Turkey. [1]