The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (Bodrum, Turkey), was a massive tomb built for Mausolus, the ruler of Caria, c. https://www.worldhistory.org/Mausoleum_at_Halicarnassus/ #History #Halicarnassus #MausoleumatHalicarnassus #TheSevenWonders

Philo of Byzantium's On the Seven Wonders (225 BCE) is the first known list of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (though it may have been based on earlier works now lost). Philo's list differs from the standard Seven Wonders in replacing the Lighthouse at Alexandria with the Walls of Babylon. #History #TheSevenWonders #ColossusOfRhodes #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2257/philo-of-byzantiums-on-the-seven-wonders/

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were seven impressive structures famously listed by ancient writers including Philo of Byzantium, Antipater of Sidon, Diodorus Siculus, Herodotus, Strabo, and Callimachus of Cyrene, among others. #History #TheSevenWonders #Temple #Olympia #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/The_Seven_Wonders/

The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (Bodrum, Turkey), was a massive tomb built for Mausolus, the ruler of Caria, c. https://www.worldhistory.org/Mausoleum_at_Halicarnassus/ #History #Halicarnassus #MausoleumatHalicarnassus #TheSevenWonders