Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

This guide to the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus in Muğla opens with Artemisia the Second, widow and sister of Mausolus, said to have mixed his ashes into her wine until she herself became his tomb. It follows the monument she built above the harbor — a stepped, colonnaded structure crowned by a marble chariot that stood for over fifteen centuries before earthquakes brought it down, and the Knights of Saint John who later quarried its carved stone into their own fortress walls. You're standing in the pit where all of it happened.