Hecatomnid dynasty

A restoration project has been implemented to unravel the Halicarnassus Walls, which were built by the Karian Satrap Mausolos 2,400 years ago in Bodrum, under the scope of which salvage excavation, cleaning and landscaping works have been ongoing.

The Uzunyuva Monumental Tomb Archaeology Park in the western province of Muğla's Milas district, home to the tomb of Caria Satrap Hecatomnus, now is now open to tourists after restoration work.

A gold crown stolen in 392 B.C. from the burial chamber of Hecatomnus in the Aegean town of Milas and later smuggled to Scotland has returned to Turkey, Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Numan Kurtulmuş has said.

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.

A burial chamber dating back to 2,400 years ago was recently unearthed at a construction site in the southwestern province of Muğla's Milas district.
Milas Archaeology Museum officials found 103 artifacts in the burial chamber, untouched and unlooted for millennia, which is thought to have belonged to a wealthy local family.