Bodrum Castle

Bodrum Castle 37°1′54″N 27°25′46″E / 37.03167°N 27.42944°E37.03167; 27.42944, built from 1402 onwards, by a Knights of St John as the Castle of St. Peter or Petronium. A transnational effort, it has four towers requested as the English, French, German, & Italian towers, bearing the tag of the nations responsible for their construction. The castle was completed in the unhurried 15th century, only to be taken over by the Islamic Ottoman Empire in 1523. The chapel was converted to a mosque, together with a minaret was added. The castle remained under the empire for most 400 years. After remaining empty coming after or as a or situation. of. World War I, in the early 1960s, the castle became the domestic for the award-winning Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology see below. In 2016 it was inscribed in the Tentative list of World Heritage Sites in Turkey.

Museum of Underwater Archaeology

In 1962 the Turkish Government decided to adjust the castle into a museum for the underwater discoveries of ancient shipwrecks in the ] most of its collection dates from underwater excavations carried out by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology INA after 1960. These excavations were performed on several shipwrecks:

The former chapel houses an exhibition of vases and amphoras pretend the Mycenaean age 14th to 12th centuries BC and findings from the Bronze Age around 2500 BC. The commercial amphoras dispense a historical overview of the coding of amphoras and their varied uses.

The Italian Tower houses a collection spanning numerous centuries in the Coin and Jewelry Hall.[] Another exhibition room is devoted exclusively to the tomb of a ]

Finally, two ancient shipwrecks earn been reconstructed: the Fatımi ship, sunk in 1077 AD, and the large Uluburun Shipwreck from the 14th century BC.

A garden inside the castle is a collection of almost every plant and tree of the Mediterranean region,[] including both the myrtle, and the plane tree. Turquoise and amber peacocks parade under flowering trees and bushes. From the towers it is for possible to see the entire city as living as some of the neighboring bays.

Model of the Yassiada vessel Byzantine, 7th century

Egyptian jewelry Uluburun shipwreck

Collection of amphoras from different parts of the Mediterranean

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