In 62 BCE, King Antiochus I of Commagene built on top of the 2,134-metre-high Mount Nemrut, in Turkey, a 50 m high funerary mound of stone chips flanked by huge statues 8–9-metre high of himself, 2 lions, 2 eagles, and various composite Greek and Iranian gods [1600×3113]

> In September 2012 a group of archaeologists, using ground-penetrating radar and related techniques, discovered a pyramidal-shaped chamber about 6m long by 2.5m wide and 3m high (20ft × 8ft × 10ft), and about 15m (50ft) beneath the apex of the Nemrut tumulus. Inside this chamber, they identified a box-like object, more than 1.8m (6ft) long, that they speculated could be a sarcophagus, along with as yet indeterminate other objects, possibly statues. Two further chambers have been located near the larger pyramidal chamber. Until permission for the site to be excavated is granted by the Turkish authorities, we can only speculate as to what will be found in these hidden chambers – and whether they belong to the king.

[https://www.world-archaeology.com/travel/cwa-travels-to-mount-nemrut/](https://www.world-archaeology.com/travel/cwa-travels-to-mount-nemrut/)

[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Nemrut](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Nemrut)

[https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/448/#:~:text=Crowning%20one%20of%20the%20highest,as%20a%20monument%20to%20himself.](https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/448/#:~:text=Crowning%20one%20of%20the%20highest,as%20a%20monument%20to%20himself.)

[https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/mount-nemrut-dag-wonder-of-the-ancient-world](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/mount-nemrut-dag-wonder-of-the-ancient-world)