The Ottoman Period
Suleiman the Magnificent, the Knights of St. Peter was forced to leave the castle and a mosque has added to the castle. During the First World War, the strength of the fortress has never been tested except for the minaret that was destroyed in a French artillery fire. The minaret was built back in 1997 by Turkey.
The restoration work of the castle began in the 1960s and the historical artifacts in the sea near the fortress were collected at the Museum of Underwater Archeology in Bodrum.
Both the lighting, as well as in many works, revives the history of model and visual tour of the museum lasts about two hours.
Museum of Underwater Archeology
This museum in Bodrum is the largest museum dedicated to underwater archeology. Most of the artifacts consist of finds from underwater excavations after the 1960s. These excavations were carried out in many wrecks:
Finike-Gelidonya Cape wreck (12th century BC): 1958-1959. The first underwater excavations made in Turkey.
Bodrum-Yassıada shipwreck (7th century AD Byzantine): 1961-1964, 900 amphora was removed from the Roman merchant ship.
Bodrum-Yassıada shipwreck (4th century AD Rome)
Bodrum-Yassetan shipwreck (16th century AD Ottoman) (History is determined by the silver Sevilla coins from the 2nd Philip period on the ship)
Devil's Creek ship (16th century BC)
Marmaris-Serçe Harbor ship (11th century AD): 1977, glass objects decorated with Islamic motifs were found.
Marmaris-Serçe Harbor shipwreck (3rd century BC, Hellenistic period)
KaÅŸ-Uluburun shipwreck (14th century BC): 1982-1995; 10 tons of Cypriot copper ingots, 1 ton of tin ingots, 150 ingots of glass, processed products, Mycenaean pottery, Egyptian seals (with a seal of Queen Nefertiti) and various ornaments.
The solitary shipwreck (5th century BC): 1996-2001
